On 14 Mar, Andre Pang wrote: > hdparm -u1 -d1 /dev/hdc > > That will turn on interrupt unmasking and DMA transfers for the > drive, which should significantly lower the CPU load.
To avoid kernel lock ups on mine, I have to do this: echo "Applying /sbin/hdparm -d1 -X34 /dev/hdc (dma on, multi-word enabled):" /sbin/hdparm -d1 -X34 /dev/hdc /sbin/hdparm -k1 /dev/hdc I have the above in my /etc/rc.local file. luke -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
