If you do more than one tests (3-4) you will see that the 
performance increse is quite significant. Just put the 

hdparm -c 3 /dev/hda

command in your rc.local (see my original mail).

Good luck

Murat

On 6 Jul 2001, at 19:24, Adalberto Manlio Donati wrote:

> I tested it and it made the access a bit faster (was 64 Mb in 5,44s =11.76 
> MB/sec is 64Mb in 4,89s=13,09Mb/s)
> 
> Is it worth?
> 
> And if it is, how can I say linux to execute hdparm at every start?
> 
> 
> THank you,
> 
> Adalberto
> 
> Il 17:27, gioved� 5 luglio 2001, hai scritto:
> > On Thursday 05 July 2001 12:45 pm, Bill Gurley may or may not have written:
> > > Note especially that last sentence.  Most of us are using an
> > > EIDE interface built into the motherboard, so I don't see
> > > how this would have any effect.  I haven't tried it;  maybe
> > > I'm wrong?  The thing to do would be to run a benchmark
> > > utility before and after.
> >
> > hdparm -t /dev/hda
> >
> > before and after for quick benchmarks.
> >
> > http://plug.twuug.org/need_speed.shtml
> >
> > Hoyt
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