Hello, I'll forward to info I just sent our LUG:
Be warned > > > From: Jaye Inabnit ke6sls <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello, I'm sure many (if not all) have already read the graet article on using hdparm - http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/272 I did several tests here. the WD10 and 20 gb drives didn't really see any increase, and the last one mentioned actually slowed it down perhaps 5%.. have to admit, WD's drives are just plain fast in default dma mode. Anyhow, several users did some tweeks and all seemed well tell the next boot... fsck was the norm, and I actually died hard, down to e2fsck and rebuilt the superblocks... So, just consider this a heads up.. You might see significant gain, but DO read the man page and make sure you have backups - just in case fsck/e2fsck can't bring the drive back... Regards On Friday 10 November 2000 08:41, Krzys Majewski wrote: > "Michael P. Soulier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > In case you guys missed this one, check it out. > > > > http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/272 > > > > I just increased my harddrive throughput by 5 times. > > > > Mike > > Do you notice a difference though? I increased mine from about 3Mbps > to about 18Mbps, but I haven't felt it yet. -chris -- Jaye Inabnit, ARS ke6sls e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 707-442-6579 h/m 707-441-7096 p http://www.qsl.net/ke6sls ICQ# 12741145 This mail composed with kmail on kde on X on linux warped by debian If it's stupid, but works, it ain't stupid.
