> No idea if this works on SATA, but there is an sdparm. > http://sg.torque.net/sg/sdparm.html > > -- > Archaic >
Thanks. I've been playing with that. Actually some of hdparm still works, the error messages are expected and apparently harmless. Sdparm has no benchmark option. There are kernel patches to add functionality to libata but for some reason not for my kernel (2.6.14.2). Sounds like 2.6.15 will have it built in. Most of the optimisation should be already happening if scsi-sata support is present (and is for me). The only decision to make is whether to take the risk of write cache enable or not (was enabled by default by m disk). For a home user like me it sounds acceptable. Thanks again for the help. I'm now looking for my next "issue" David -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
