Re: [Cooker] HD Parms, and DMA?
hi you can check this webpage for harddisk optimizations, it explains the options and things clearly http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/linux/2000/06/29/hdparm.html hth crazycrusoe --- John Muir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I seem to remember isntalling in 'expert' mode a few times, and being asked whether or not I wanted DMA on my Hard Disks set on. Now, since I've been short on time, I've been using the 'recommended' install, and there was no question about DMA, and now I'm trying to determine how to get that setup again. I know that the 'hdparm' command will set this up for me, but I'm not sure what parameters to use. Are there any 'auto-probe' tools that will 'guess' the most optimal hdparm settings for my system? Anyways, I'd like to use DMA on my system as it give a HUGE performance increase on disk access (at least the rest of the system doesn't bog down even if the disk access isn't noticibly faster). Where is that performance tuning stuff gone? ..John __ Do You Yahoo!? Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. All in one Place. http://shopping.yahoo.com/
[Cooker] HD Parms, and DMA?
Hi, I seem to remember isntalling in 'expert' mode a few times, and being asked whether or not I wanted DMA on my Hard Disks set on. Now, since I've been short on time, I've been using the 'recommended' install, and there was no question about DMA, and now I'm trying to determine how to get that setup again. I know that the 'hdparm' command will set this up for me, but I'm not sure what parameters to use. Are there any 'auto-probe' tools that will 'guess' the most optimal hdparm settings for my system? Anyways, I'd like to use DMA on my system as it give a HUGE performance increase on disk access (at least the rest of the system doesn't bog down even if the disk access isn't noticibly faster). Where is that performance tuning stuff gone? ..John
Re: [Cooker] HD Parms, and DMA?
This should help http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/hardware/hdtweak.html Salane John Muir wrote: Hi, I seem to remember isntalling in 'expert' mode a few times, and being asked whether or not I wanted DMA on my Hard Disks set on. Now, since I've been short on time, I've been using the 'recommended' install, and there was no question about DMA, and now I'm trying to determine how to get that setup again. I know that the 'hdparm' command will set this up for me, but I'm not sure what parameters to use. Are there any 'auto-probe' tools that will 'guess' the most optimal hdparm settings for my system? Anyways, I'd like to use DMA on my system as it give a HUGE performance increase on disk access (at least the rest of the system doesn't bog down even if the disk access isn't noticibly faster). Where is that performance tuning stuff gone? ..John
Re: [Cooker] HD Parms, and DMA?
John Muir wrote: Hi, I seem to remember isntalling in 'expert' mode a few times, and being asked whether or not I wanted DMA on my Hard Disks set on. Now, since I've been short on time, I've been using the 'recommended' install, and there was no question about DMA, and now I'm trying to determine how to get that setup again. I know that the 'hdparm' command will set this up for me, but I'm not sure what parameters to use. Are there any 'auto-probe' tools that will 'guess' the most optimal hdparm settings for my system? Anyways, I'd like to use DMA on my system as it give a HUGE performance increase on disk access (at least the rest of the system doesn't bog down even if the disk access isn't noticibly faster). Where is that performance tuning stuff gone? ..John "man hdparm" :) (very good as man pages go...) I put the settings I want in /etc/rc.d/rc.local so it runs at boot, e.g.: "hdparm -c1d1u1k1 /dev/hda". "hdparm -i" "hdparm -I" will show you the settings as found by kernel at boot/reported by your disk. -WBD
