On Mon, Jan 10, 2000, hughc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Of course, if disk-intensiveness is a large part of the compiling process, you >probably need to spend a fair amount of time with hdparm before it works at >it's >best. According to it's built-in benchmarks, disk throughput practically >doubled >on my 400 mhz "Bronze" laptop when I set it to autotune. > >Is hdparm available with Debian?
depending on which options you used when the kernel was compiled, this may be done automatically. My latest "ibook" kernel contains some IDE changes that will automatically set the disk to the best support DMA mode.
