Re: Hard drive block

["Jaakko Niemi" <liiwi@lonesom.pp.fi>]

>> How does one tell the IDE driver to use block read/writes whenever possible? I
>> ran into a situation where I was playing a wave file in the background and I
>> had to check a directory on that same drive. As soon as I invoked "dir", the
>> sound went down the tubes and I noticed the excessive access of the hard drive
>> by the wave player program.

 hdparm.

 Description: Tune hard disk parameters for high performance.
 Shell utility to access/tune ioctl features of the
 linux hard disk and (E)IDE drivers for kernel 1.1.65+.
 Primary use is for enabling irq-unmasking and IDE multiplemode.


	--j



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