Re: [gentoo-user] hdparm acoustic settings

2003-07-04 Thread Dmitry Suzdalev
On Friday 04 July 2003 00:56, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: this DOES NOT influence the speed of the spindle. It just affects how fast the heads are accelerated/decellerated and moved into their positions. So, if I understand you right I would get speed increase if I try to make this value

Re: [gentoo-user] hdparm acoustic settings

2003-07-04 Thread Dmitry Suzdalev
On Friday 04 July 2003 22:04, Dmitry Suzdalev wrote: So, if I understand you right I would get speed increase if I try to make this value larger? s/ would / wouldn't / Sorry. Dmitry. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] hdparm acoustic settings

2003-07-04 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Friday 04 July 2003 20:36, Dmitry Suzdalev wrote: On Friday 04 July 2003 22:04, Dmitry Suzdalev wrote: So, if I understand you right I would get speed increase if I try to make this value larger? s/ would / wouldn't / maybe you are getting some speedups related to random file access,

Re: [gentoo-user] hdparm acoustic settings

2003-07-04 Thread Dmitry Suzdalev
On Friday 04 July 2003 23:45, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: maybe you are getting some speedups related to random file access, and I for myself have set my drives to quiet most of the time and switch, when I know that some stress (like emerging glibc, kde, gcc) is coming up. My disks don't

[gentoo-user] hdparm acoustic settings

2003-07-03 Thread Dmitry Suzdalev
Hello, For about a 6 month ago I used 'hdparm -M 192' to reduce noise coming from my HDD (Maxtor 60GB). It worked pretty well -- since then I can't hear my hard drive at all. Now I noticed that my (recently installed) KDE apps are starting too slow and while they are starting HDD is used