Re: HOWTO - Speed up IDE HD's
On Sat, Feb 07, 2004 at 07:57:55PM -0800, Marc Wilson wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 12:07:26AM +0000, Svens wrote:
>
> <hdparm suicide deleted>
>
> Gee, let's turn another cluebie loose with a shotgun, and see if he can
> zorch his data.
>
> Let's not find out what modes his drives actually support, and let's make
> sure that the kernel can't reset it if it's wrong. Let's unmask
> interrupts, without finding out if his hardware can deal with it. Let's
> try to force DMA on, without finding out whether or not his kernel supports
> his IDE chipset.
>
> Never mind that the kernel can do 90% of this on its own, and a wonderful
> first step should *always* be finding out why it HASN'T.
>
> People who write hdparm HOWTOs need to be hung up by their toenails. I've
> yet to read one that tried to be an even minimally responsible resource.
>
> > good luck
>
> Yeah, he'll need it.
To be honest, I tried what he said and got very little speedup.
I did try "hdparm -c" and saw that by default I was doing -c0.
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