On Sun, 2003-08-10 at 08:12, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > On Sun, 2003-08-10 at 21:38, Anarky wrote: > > hi everybody ... me new ... I just had a very embarassing moment > > today. A friend came by with his hdd .. and I was copying about 1Gb of > > data from one hdd to another. My linux preaching was going pretty well > > .. and he was pretty much willing to give it a try too ... > <WHACK> > > In the case of slapping hard drives into your machine and then copying > data to them, it's best to get to know HDPARM quite well, and how to > tweak drive settings with it. > > After slapping the drive in your boxen and getting linux up and running > and recognising the drive, you're going to want to force some params on > it in order to get some better throughput - much better than what you > experienced today. > > I honestly suggest reading very carefully through the HDPARM man pages, > but then again, I know about RTFM and how often we choose not to do > that... > > So, with that said, here are some settings that I've found work about > right for every drive I slap into a system here (for basically the same > thing): > > hdparm -X69 -d1 -u1 -c3 -m16 -A1 -W1 /dev/hdX > > (where X is the letter of the device)
i might have missed how full the drives are, or if (since fat32) they have been defragged in some time.
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