Re: [expert] Tweaking Harddrives - Any More Tips?
On Sunday February 2001 12:30 Jerry wrote: I add mine to rc.sysinit and it held all day yesterday with some heavy use, and a couple of trial reboots seem to show no problems with it getting activated. Thanks, Jerry On Friday 02 February 2001 03:04, s wrote: I've read that you need to put it in a startup script. I put mine in the rc.local though the sysinit or every_time maybe more desirable cause stuff in the rc.local sometimes run more than once and seem to run on shutdown. -s On Friday 02 February 2001 01:47 pm, you wrote: I have ata100 drive and and in grub I have ide0=noautotune idebus=100 On bootI see the message assuming ide33 overriding with with idebusxxx. So I assume it is recognizing the ata100 controll. BTW it is an Intel 815e MB. Now when I run hdparm -c -d -k /dev/hda I get I/O suport = 0 (16-bit) using_dma = 0 (off) keepsettings = (0) off I run hdparm -c1 -d1 -k1 /dev/hda I get the same as below, and all testing of the drive by moving files and etc, everything seems ok. But when I reboot, the hard drive resets everything back to off. I thought the hdparm -k1 /dev/hda was supposed to save the settings? Is there a way to make it save these setting with out editing an init script, if not which script to I add it do rc.local? sysinit? Thanks, Jerry On Tuesday 30 January 2001 07:50, Sevatio Octavio wrote: I'm trying to improve my HD's performance. HDPARM -t /dev/hda yields only 9 MB/Sec # hdparm -c -d -k /dev/hda /dev/hda: I/O support = 1 (32-bit) using_dma= 1 (on) keepsettings = 1 (on) Are there other things to try to improve this? System: 20gig HD, 500Mhz K6/2 AMD, Asus P5A mobo. Thanks, Seve
Re: [expert] Tweaking Harddrives - Any More Tips?
I have ata100 drive and and in grub I have ide0=noautotune idebus=100 On bootI see the message assuming ide33 overriding with with idebusxxx. So I assume it is recognizing the ata100 controll. BTW it is an Intel 815e MB. Now when I run hdparm -c -d -k /dev/hda I get I/O suport = 0 (16-bit) using_dma = 0 (off) keepsettings = (0) off I run hdparm -c1 -d1 -k1 /dev/hda I get the same as below, and all testing of the drive by moving files and etc, everything seems ok. But when I reboot, the hard drive resets everything back to off. I thought the hdparm -k1 /dev/hda was supposed to save the settings? Is there a way to make it save these setting with out editing an init script, if not which script to I add it do rc.local? sysinit? Thanks, Jerry On Tuesday 30 January 2001 07:50, Sevatio Octavio wrote: I'm trying to improve my HD's performance. HDPARM -t /dev/hda yields only 9 MB/Sec # hdparm -c -d -k /dev/hda /dev/hda: I/O support = 1 (32-bit) using_dma= 1 (on) keepsettings = 1 (on) Are there other things to try to improve this? System: 20gig HD, 500Mhz K6/2 AMD, Asus P5A mobo. Thanks, Seve
Re: [expert] Tweaking Harddrives - Any More Tips?
I've read that you need to put it in a startup script. I put mine in the rc.local though the sysinit or every_time maybe more desirable cause stuff in the rc.local sometimes run more than once and seem to run on shutdown. -s On Friday 02 February 2001 01:47 pm, you wrote: I have ata100 drive and and in grub I have ide0=noautotune idebus=100 On bootI see the message assuming ide33 overriding with with idebusxxx. So I assume it is recognizing the ata100 controll. BTW it is an Intel 815e MB. Now when I run hdparm -c -d -k /dev/hda I get I/O suport = 0 (16-bit) using_dma = 0 (off) keepsettings = (0) off I run hdparm -c1 -d1 -k1 /dev/hda I get the same as below, and all testing of the drive by moving files and etc, everything seems ok. But when I reboot, the hard drive resets everything back to off. I thought the hdparm -k1 /dev/hda was supposed to save the settings? Is there a way to make it save these setting with out editing an init script, if not which script to I add it do rc.local? sysinit? Thanks, Jerry On Tuesday 30 January 2001 07:50, Sevatio Octavio wrote: I'm trying to improve my HD's performance. HDPARM -t /dev/hda yields only 9 MB/Sec # hdparm -c -d -k /dev/hda /dev/hda: I/O support = 1 (32-bit) using_dma= 1 (on) keepsettings = 1 (on) Are there other things to try to improve this? System: 20gig HD, 500Mhz K6/2 AMD, Asus P5A mobo. Thanks, Seve
[expert] Tweaking Harddrives - Any More Tips?
I'm trying to improve my HD's performance. HDPARM -t /dev/hda yields only 9 MB/Sec # hdparm -c -d -k /dev/hda /dev/hda: I/O support = 1 (32-bit) using_dma= 1 (on) keepsettings = 1 (on) Are there other things to try to improve this? System: 20gig HD, 500Mhz K6/2 AMD, Asus P5A mobo. Thanks, Seve
