Re: hdparm

[Boris Duerner <bduerner@web.de>]

Hi,
I my local usergroup, whenever I installed Debian on a new machine, I was 
asked to set the harddrive to -c1,-d1,and -mxx.
So from my point of view there is demand for speed enhancement. I roughly 
thought of a /etc/hdparm with the following syntax

[Drive]
 device=/device/hda
 dma=on
 io_32=on
 multi_sector_count=16

[Drive]
 device=/dev/hdb
 dma=on
 io_32=off
 multi_sector_count=0

By having separate device stanzas, the user can decide what he wants to 
switch on or off for each device.	

regards,
Marc







On Monday 23 September 2002 22:17, Simon Hürlimann wrote:
> Hi
>
> I fully agree to a init.d/hdparm /etc/hdparm.conf solution.
> i just hacked a /init.d/hdparm script today, before reading this mail.
> means: there is a need for this.
>
> some questions arose:
> - will it be dynamic (means using /proc/ide or the like) or static (only
> configure devices in /etc/hdparm.conf)?
> - what are the default params? very safe, so just installing hdparm won't
> bring any enhancement, or should hdparm act as a speed enhancer, meaning
> setting dma, io_32bit...?
>
>
> just my 2c
> simon
>
> Am Sonntag, 22. September 2002 18.23 schrieb Boris Duerner:
> > Maybe there was an idea behind having separate packages for hwtools and
> > hdparm.
> >
> > hwtools is more than just IDE stuff, as I could see from the init.d
> > script.
> >
> > From my experiences with our debian users in our local user group and
> > from the point of view of a config tool writer it is more comfortable to
> > have a script in /etc/init.d and a corresponding .conf file in /etc. Such
> > as for networking, pcmcia or usbmgr.
> >
> > I would volunteer to write one if there is any demand.
> >
> > Proposal (open for suggestions):
> > Have the following files added to the hdparm package:
> > /etc/init.d/hdparm
> > /etc/hdparm.conf
> >
> > remove hdparm support from hwtools
> >
> > regards,
> > Marc
> >
> > On Sunday 22 September 2002 17:00, you wrote:
> > > Boris Duerner (bduerner@web.de) wrote:
> > > > I haven't seen hwtools before and was wondering if no one has written
> > > > a script for /etc/init.d yet which possibly takes parameters from a
> > > > /etc/hdparm.conf file and sets up IDE parameters on boot up.
> > > > Preferably to be distributed in the hdparm.deb package...
> > >
> > > Yeah, this seems resonable. Why not file a bug against hdparm; I think
> > > this should be in hdparm and not hwtools, since the binary is in hdparm
> > > and not in hwtools. But thats just my opinion; why not email the
> > > package maintainer (or (s)he may reply later today).
> > >
> > > Yours,
> > >
> > >   James