Re: Where to run hdparm during boot?
On Mon, Aug 19, 2002 at 04:13:16PM +0000, Matthias Daub wrote:
> On my Dell Inspiron 7500 I found out that playing around with hdparm can
> help increase disk throughput from about 3 Mb to somewhat around 6-7 Mb
> using the following setting:
>
> hdparm -X66 -c3 -m16 -d1 -u1 -W1 /dev/hda
>
> Regarding the usage of hdparm I have two questions:
>
> (1) Even though 6-7 MB is no phantastic result, it is still much better
> than before. Do you have any idea of how to improve performance even more?
>
> (2) After several tests with stable results I decided to make this change
> permanent. I think (I'm not sure though) I should put this command
> somewhere in /etc/init.d/bootmisc.sh. Is this true and if so, where do I
> put it? In not, what file should it go in (and where)?
>
> Thank you very much.
>
As far as where to run hdparm from at boot, if you install the hwtools package, it
installs a script in /etc/init.d, and that script has a commented out section
intended for hdparm commands. It's one option anyway...among many.
Tom
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