Re: hdparm

[Osamu Aoki <debian@aokiconsulting.com>]

On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 04:11:17PM +0100, Darren Salt wrote:
> I demand that Simon Hürlimann may or may not have top-posted...
> 
> > 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)?
> 
> I don't know about this (though I suspect that it'll be static)...
> 
> > - 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...?
> 
> ... but having it default to being a speed enhancer is a *bad* idea unless
> tests can be run during startup to determine whether things such as 32bit I/O
> will work.

If you read bug report, that was concern and that was the reason why I
proposed silly placeholder file.  What ever way we impliment, default
shall be "off" unless someopne write very smart auto detector.

See other message on this thread for the bug #.

Osamu
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