On Thu, Feb 10, 2000 at 10:13:00AM +0000, Charles Baylis mentioned:
>
> Hi there
>
> What am I actually allowed to do with hdparm on a BP6? I use the PIIX4 IDE
> channels only, not the HPT366. I used to have hdparm run at boot time, but
> removing that improved the stability hugely (with hdparm lockups in 6 hours,
> without, uptimes up to 10 days)
>
> Currently, only my hard disk is using DMA, the CD-ROM and CD-RW are both set
> to PIO. (Kernel defaults)
Well, I have this in my rc.local:
hdparm -a 16 -A 1 -c 3 -d 1 -k 1 -K 1 -m 16 -u 1 -X 66 -W 1 /dev/hda
That's on an IBM-DJNA-371350, and it improved performance under
high-swapping a lot, which helped stability (machine used to lock up a lot
under high swap).
Kate
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