Re: Harddrive performance tuning

From: mbox mbarsalou <barjunk@attglobal.net>
Date: Mon Mar 01 1999 - 02:48:38 AKST

Yes I read hdparm and found that I was too scared to try any of the
options...all the ones that seem like they might help "could destroy
your data!".

I am looking for some practical experience using the hdparm tool and
ways to know what settings would be safe.

Mike

On Wed, 2004-03-24 at 21:31, Justin Dieters wrote:
> Have you played with hdparm? In partular, io support, dma, readahead,
> etc (Use caution and read the manpages - some settings can be harmful to
> your hard drive)
>
> Someone else might be able to tell you the things to look for, I've only
> ever used it for enabling DMA on DVD drives.
>
> Justin
>
>
>
> Barsalou wrote:
> > Are there some reasonably simple steps I could take to better tune my HD
> > performance.
> >
> > In the first place, I am getting a kernel message that says something
> > like...your bus is running at 33mHz use idebus= to fix it.
> >
> > Is that all I would have to do? Seems simple enough.
> >
> > Mike

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