>> How does one tell the IDE driver to use block read/writes whenever possible?
>> I
>> ran into a situation where I was playing a wave file in the background and I
>> had to check a directory on that same drive. As soon as I invoked "dir", the
>> sound went down the tubes and I noticed the excessive access of the hard
>> drive
>> by the wave player program.
hdparm.
Description: Tune hard disk parameters for high performance.
Shell utility to access/tune ioctl features of the
linux hard disk and (E)IDE drivers for kernel 1.1.65+.
Primary use is for enabling irq-unmasking and IDE multiplemode.
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