On Wed, 2004-06-30 at 17:06, Gosselin, Mark wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Just a shot that someone might have read the same article I did. I read somewhere > that there is a way to increase I/O > to IDE drives by using sysctl to set parallel I/O on or off... Is anyone familiar > with this concept. If so, what's the proper > syntax for an entry in the /etc/sysctl.conf file to enable such an animal??? I'm > running Red Hat Linux... on an IBM > desktop. Will gladly provide more info if needed...
I believe you are looking for /sbin/hdparm # /sbin/hdparm --help You'll see all the settings you can tweak. # /sbin/hdparm -tT /dev/hda will give you a quick diagnostic of throughput. Regards, Matthew Frederico - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
