On Mon, 30 Dec 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> How did you determine the appropriate values for all of the
> other settings you made besides the DMA setting? (Or, where
> did you come across this information for these settings
> (besides the man page obviously))?
lots o digging/reading or see below
> On Fri, Dec 27, 2002 at 11:17:31PM -0700, Michael wrote:
> > You guys hooked me up. I entered the following hdparm command:
> >
> > hdparm -X34 -d1 -u1 -m16 -c3 /dev/hda
you can see your supported dma options on your drive
hdparm -iv /dev/hda | grep dma
the * indicates its current supported dma option
for old style dma
32+ dmaMode
for ultra-dma mode
64+ ultraDMAmode
for ata-66, udma4 --> -X68
for ata-100 udma5 --> -X69
for more dma fun
http://www.Linux-1U.net/Disks/
for more disk and system tuning
http://www.Linux-1U.net/Tuning
c ya
alvin
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