Re: [expert] 'Use hard drive optimizations' does what?

[Andrew George]

On Fri, 22 Dec 2000 13:57, A V Flinsch wrote:
> On Thursday 21 December 2000 21:17, you wrote:
> > So the burning question is: Does anybody have the hdparm command in
> > their rc scripts or elsewhere???
>
> I have the following at the end of rc.local
>
> # hdparm stuff
> echo -n "Harddrive optimizations"
> /sbin/hdparm -c 1 -d 1 -k 1 /dev/hda
> /sbin/hdparm -c 1 -d 1 -k 1 /dev/hdb
> /sbin/hdparm -c 1 -k 1 /dev/hde

Oddly enough I discovered that even though I had a hdparm line in rc2.d, 
rc3.d and rc4.d...I had to add the line to rc.local to get it to work