Hi, On Thursday 03 July 2003 22:34, Dmitry Suzdalev wrote: > Hello, > > For about a 6 month ago I used 'hdparm -M 192' to reduce noise coming from > my HDD (Maxtor 60GB). It worked pretty well -- since then I can't hear my > hard drive at all. > Now I noticed that my (recently installed) KDE apps are starting too slow > and while they are starting HDD is used pretty hard, so I think that the > reason of this is that HDD's disks spin at lower speed -- that's the cost > of silence > > :). > > Now goes the main question: does the value given to -M option has some > specific format? I mean, may be it has to be a some power of 2 or something > like that? Or I can set any value from range specified in the man page of > hdparm? >
this DOES NOT influence the speed of the spindle. It just affects how fast the heads are accelerated/decellerated and moved into their positions. Accoustic settings are a little bit dangerous. A lot of disks only support two settings quiet (128) or fast (256), other have four, eight or 128 steps. Glück Auf, Volker -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
