On Sun, 19 Nov 2000, Tom Brinkman wrote:
On Saturday 18 November 2000 10:13 pm, pablito wrote:
Interesting. "info hdparm" is a terminal command?
yes. (su to root) 'hdparm -i /dev/hd*' will read the information
from your harddrive's (HDD) firmware (bios). Much of this information
On Sunday 19 November 2000 06:29 am, skidley wrote:
I am just wondering about the -a128 setting, mine is at 8
automatically I have a Western Digital AC313000R my MB has a maximum
of udma mode 2 but my drive can support udma3(ata/66). I am thinking
about setting up these options hdparm -m16
installation - disk optimization check box -- what does that do? Is there
something like a disk defragmenter for Linux, (other than "defrag" that says
you have to run it from a boot disk to defragment the root partition.)
On Saturday 18 November 2000 06:12 pm, pablito wrote:
installation - disk optimization check box -- what does that do? Is
there something like a disk defragmenter for Linux,
NO. ext2 and Reiser file systems don't require defraging like DOS
does. The optimization check box you refer to
Interesting. "info hdparm" is a terminal command?
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From: "Tom Brinkman" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Saturday, November 18, 2000 6:10 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Re: disk optimization option
: On Saturday 18 November 2000 06:
pablito wrote:
installation - disk optimization check box -- what does that do? Is there
something like a disk defragmenter for Linux, (other than "defrag" that says
you have to run it from a boot disk to defragment the root partition.)
Umm, thats more for speeding up your hard drive, --
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Subject: Re: [newbie] Re: disk optimization option
: On Saturday 18 November 2000 06:12 pm, pablito wrote:
: installation - disk optimization check box -- what does that do?
: Is there something like
