Found an interesting article on hdparm. The article stresses extreme caution in using it. I recommend using hdparm -v /dev/hda (put in your IDE drive) to find your current settings. I was able to get the buffered disk reads up from 11.5 MB/sec to 13.7 MB/sec. Didn't think that would be much of an improvement, but application loads were noticeably quicker. Netscape downloads seem to have improved somewhat as well. Don't think I'll try and push it any further though. http://oreilly.linux.com/pub/a/linux/2000/06/29/hdparm.html Barry :-)
