Re: Am I using my hard drives right?
On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 11:51:14PM -0800, Nano Nano wrote:
> Last Feb/Mar/Apr, as I learned Linux, I tried somewhat dilligently to
> understand if my IDE drives were being used "as fast as possible" -- I
> have a couple of UDMA/100 and a couple of UDMA/133 devices.
>
> I was thoroughly confused, but I got far enough to roughly guess that my
> drives were not operating in the old 33 way; but I didn't do anything
> special.
>
> Can somebody explain concisely and/or provide links to *simple*
> procedures to verify my IDE hard drives and CDs are using "advanced
> features" and are "tweaked"?
>
> Is it reasonable to accept that the kernel will just autodetect things
> optimally? I know with the Windows kernel you need to download stuff
> from Intel.com for Windows 2000 or things are in "compatability" mode by
> default.
>
apt-get install hdparm
man hdparm
hdparm -tT /dev/hda
hdparm -tT /dev/hdb
hdparm -i /dev/hda
hdparm -i /dev/hdb
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