Re: hdparm settings, do they persist after reboots? hd performance

2002-01-25 Thread Andre Berger
* Walter Tautz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 2002-01-25 16:36 -0500: > Just curious how this program accomplishes its changes > and whether the program has to run at boottime > to have the setting take effect? does it belong > in an rc script? You could either put it into /etc/init.d/bootmisc.sh or apt-get

RE: hdparm settings, do they persist after reboots? hd performance

2002-01-25 Thread Brooks R. Robinson
| Just curious how this program accomplishes its changes | and whether the program has to run at boottime | to have the setting take effect? does it belong | in an rc script? They are not persistant after a reboot. IIRC, there is no startup script for hdparm, however; the hwtools package includes

Re: hdparm settings, do they persist after reboots? hd performance

2002-01-25 Thread Jason Majors
> Just curious how this program accomplishes its changes > and whether the program has to run at boottime > to have the setting take effect? does it belong > in an rc script? Settings like dma do not persist between reboots. You need to either compile it into your kernel or add it to a startup scri

hdparm settings, do they persist after reboots? hd performance

2002-01-25 Thread Walter Tautz
Just curious how this program accomplishes its changes and whether the program has to run at boottime to have the setting take effect? does it belong in an rc script? -walter

Re: hdparm settings

1999-10-26 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Tue, Oct 26, 1999 at 11:34:24AM +0200, Ingo Reimann wrote: > > Heeemm, hdparm is, by default, contained in script: > > /etc/rc.boot/hwtools > > > Yummi, > > could you be so kind to tell us, in which package this script should be? I > didn't find it on my system... Ooops, you're right, it's a

Re: hdparm settings

1999-10-26 Thread Ingo Reimann
On Tue, Oct 26, 1999 at 11:36:37AM +0200, Jean-Yves BARBIER wrote: > On Mon, Oct 25, 1999 at 10:19:55PM -0500, Andrei Ivanov wrote: > > Thats the idea. Make a small script in init.d directory and link from > > runlevel /etc/rc*.d to it. > > Andrew > > Heeemm, hdparm is, by default, contained in sc

Re: hdparm settings

1999-10-26 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Mon, Oct 25, 1999 at 10:19:55PM -0500, Andrei Ivanov wrote: > Thats the idea. Make a small script in init.d directory and link from > runlevel /etc/rc*.d to it. > Andrew Heeemm, hdparm is, by default, contained in script: /etc/rc.boot/hwtools JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: hdparm settings

1999-10-26 Thread Matthew Gregan
On Tue, Oct 26, 1999 at 04:02:20PM +1300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > i have set a few hdparm settings to tune up my ide drive.. i however > do not know how to make those settings permanent as setting switch -k1 > does not seem to work. Should i just set the settings everytime my >

Re: hdparm settings

1999-10-26 Thread Andrei Ivanov
Thats the idea. Make a small script in init.d directory and link from runlevel /etc/rc*.d to it. Andrew > Hi all > > i have set a few hdparm settings to tune up my ide drive.. i however do not > know how to make those settings permanent as setting switch -k1 does not > seem to

hdparm settings

1999-10-26 Thread zdrysdal
Hi all i have set a few hdparm settings to tune up my ide drive.. i however do not know how to make those settings permanent as setting switch -k1 does not seem to work. Should i just set the settings everytime my machine is rebooted in an init script or something?? thanx