Re: hdparm, hard drive howto, tutorial

[Ian Silvester <yan@b13.net>]

On Thu, 11 Sep 2003 14:39:41 -0700 (PDT), Alvin Oga <aoga@ns.Linux- 
Consulting.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 11 Sep 2003, Antonio [ISO-8859-1] RodrX wrote:
>
> > Does anyone know of a good tutorial, or howto on hard drives? I would 
> > like to understand a little better this part of the hardware before 
> > playing with hdparm. Some hdparm bash script examples would be also 
> > welcome.
>
> tip#1	when playing/experimenting with hdparm, do it on a system you do
> 	NOT care about fi you lose data or that the disk is rendered
> 	useless scrap metal
> the other script posted
>
> Naitik>  hdparm -d1 -q -m16 -u1 -k1 -K1 /dev/hda
>
> you can play with -c3 too
>
> disk/hdparm tuning stuff
> 	http://www.Linux-1U.net/Tuning/
>
> and if you really wanna tune your hd, use the proper partition order
> sizes and locations on the disk platter
>
> c ya
> alvin

I used the following tutorial to good effect:

http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue79/punk.html

Once you are happy with the settings you have made, putting a script in the 
appropriate etc/rc.d (or rcX.d if using SysV init style as per Debian) 
folder is the way to go to get the settings made at boot time.

yan