Re: optimizing the hard drive?
On 26 Sep 2000, Krzys Majewski wrote:
>Matthew Dalton <matthewd@research.canon.com.au> writes:
>
>> Krzys Majewski wrote:
>> >
>> > How can I optimize hard drive access? Please tell me I don't
>> > have to try one million random combinations of the various flags
>> > to hdparm. Or is the kernel doing the right thing already?
>>
>> Read this:
>> http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/linux/2000/06/29/hdparm.html
>>
>
>Thanks. Looks like it basically does boil down to trying millions of
>random combinations, except worse because according to the manpage
>about half of them may corrupt your filesystems. I've done
>
>hdparm -c 3 -m 16 -d 1
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Now, put this on the provided line in /etc/init.d/hwtools.
It will be set up for you at boot.
Brent
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