Re: hdparm or ide howto
Greg Wiley wrote:
> Good day all.
>
> Is anyone aware of a document or set of ducuments
> that describe Linux (E)IDE support? It seems to me
> that some sort of primer on tuning IDE and demysti-
> fying the newer technologies such as ATA and
> UDMA would be a significant HOWTO asset.
>
> This is prompted by the recent discussion on this list
> which poked at a buried suspicion I have had that my
> (pretty new) IDE HDDs are not performing at their
> best. I get unexplained system slowdowns that I never
> had on much older/slower systems that used SCSI.
>
Although it is not a very technical document,this article helped me improve
EIDE performance:
http://linux.oreillynet.com/lpt/a//linux/2000/06/29/hdparm.html
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David Raeker-Jordan
mailto:rkrjrdn@epix.net
Harrisburg, PA, USA
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