On Wed, 19 May 1999, Brandon W. Beasley wrote:
> I read about /sbin/hdparm at linux.com for the first time, and so I
> tried it out [-c 1 -d 1]
>
> the harddrive went from 3.8 MB/sec to 12.5 MB/sec
>
> That's significant.
>
> Cant adjust the pio mode though.
>
That sounds really cool! (Especially when I start doing disk intensive
things, like loading the fat whore known as Netscape (a :P at the AOL
division formerly knwon as Netscape Communications and the 20 megs they
rode in on).)
Does the change stick or do you have to redo it every tiime you enter
linux? (I suppose I could be cheap and add the command to my .bashrc or
something.)
Thanks!
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