Egidio Corsini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Have you tryed to tune some parameters with hdparm? > Mine looks like that > /dev/hda: > multcount = 0 (off) > I/O support = 0 (default 16-bit) > unmaskirq = 0 (off) > using_dma = 1 (on) > keepsettings = 0 (off) > nowerr = 0 (off) > readonly = 0 (off) > readahead = 8 (on) > geometry = 38760/16/63, sectors = 39070080, start = 0 > busstate = 1 (on) > > And they're still not optimized, but it works well. > Try at least hdparm -d 1 /dev/hd? in order to enable dma
These are the default settings, afaik. What I (and the previous poster, I suspect) are curious about is 'unmaskirq', I guess, or anything else that will make the system more usable when the hard drive is at work. Ciao, -- David N. Welton Consulting: http://www.dedasys.com/ Personal: http://www.dedasys.com/davidw/ Free Software: http://www.dedasys.com/freesoftware/ Apache Tcl: http://tcl.apache.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
