Re: [Cooker] Experiences with Beta3 on my machine

[Antony Suter]

Antony Suter wrote:
> 
> > Question: How safe is it to go with "Hard Drive Optimizations"? I have a
> > fairly recent mobo and a VERY new HDD (2 months old at most) -- do you think
> > it would be safe to use those optimizations? And if so, how can I turn them
> > on after installation of the system?
> 
> I currently use "hdparm -q -c1 -d1 -m16 -u1 /dev/hda" for a hard disk and
> "hdparm -q -c1 -d1 -u1 /dev/hdc" for my IDE CDROM. "hdparm -i /dev/hda" will
> tell you how high you can go with the "-m" command. My hard drives are
> recent models from Quantum.
> 
> These flags work fine for me, although my system is not under a heavy load -
> to be able to stress test.

Actually I should say that I have turned off "-u1" for now. It *might* be
causing me a problem. Then again, I am using a self compiled hackkernel...

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