On Sat, 20 Oct 2001, Franki wrote: > Nope, you have got it,, test it, then try something and test it again, and > so on and so forth... > > it may take a while but keep a record of what you do and what paramaters you > are passing hdparm, and watch for error messages on the box... > > keep a record of your best results and use those parameters..
OK man, thanks! :-) > > > rgds > > Frank > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Roger Sherman > Sent: Saturday, 20 October 2001 6:08 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [newbie] HD spin down > > > On Sat, 20 Oct 2001, Franki wrote: > > > Fire up webmin, then go to hardware, then I think its under partitions or > > something, there is an IDE parameters section.. > > > OK so far... > > > > > you can modify your hdparm settings in there, and if they work, (you can > > test it from there as well) cut and paste the results onto the end of your > > rc.local file... > > OK, there are two buttons here...one that says apply to disk, the other > says Test Speed. When I hit that button it says: > > Speed test results > Buffered: 25.75 MB/sec > Buffer cache 2.63 MB/sec > > Nothing about whether or not the hdparm setting would have any effect. Is > there another testing procedure I'm not seeing? > > > > > > It works well,, or at least it did for me. I did it on 7.2, and for my > > second hard disk on 8.1, which drakopt didn't like.. > > > > doubled the speed on my second harddrive and no errors... good stuff, and > > webmin gives you some good info on the vrious options as well. > > > > > > > > > > rgds > > > > Frank > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Roger Sherman > > Sent: Saturday, 20 October 2001 5:35 AM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: [newbie] HD spin down > > > > > > On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, Charles A Edwards wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > Try installing drivetweak. > > > It is on CD3 of 8.1 and is a GUI frontend to hdpram. > > > Using a GUI for to adjust the settings you need not worry about the > syntax > > > being wrong. > > > > > > Charles (-: > > > > > > I don't think that would work for me, as I use 7.2. Thanks anyways! :-) > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > peace, > > > > Rog > > > > "The guy was all over the place. I had to swerve a number of times before > I > > hit him" > > > > > > > > > > > > > peace, > > Rog > > "The guy was all over the place. I had to swerve a number of times before I > hit him" > > > > > peace, Rog Registered Linux user #190719 "The guy was all over the place. I had to swerve a number of times before I hit him"
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