Net Llama babbled on about:
> Before i go and execute this gem and possibly fry my drives, could you
> elaborate on what this is supposed to do?
sure:
disk -> m8 : multi-sector count set to 8, d1 -> dma mode on, u1 -> unmask
irq, W1 -> turn on write-cache
cdrom -> u1-> unmask irq, d1->dma mode on
>
> --- Douglas J Hunley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > #!/bin/sh
> > for d in /proc/ide/hd*
> > do
> > if [ `cat $d/media` = 'disk' ] ; then
> > hdparm -qm8 -qu1 -qd1 -qW1 /dev/${d##*/}
> > fi
> > if [ `cat $d/media` = 'cdrom' ] ; then
> >
> > hdparm -qu1 -qd1 /dev/${d##*/}
> > fi
> > done
>
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