On January 13, 2004 12:57 pm, Nate Duehr wrote: > On Tuesday 13 January 2004 05:36 am, Christian Schnobrich wrote: > > What you can do is add you hdparm command to the system startup > > scripts, so it will be executed at boot time. > > Some distros add an rc script for hdparm whenever it's installed. > Debian doesn't. > > Others have hdparm or "harddisk" settings in their configuration > directories where you can add switch options that will get passed to > hdparm during boot. > > Perhaps the package maintainer for hdparm could consider similar > things for Debian. > > On the systems that do this, no settings are changed or anything done > to the hdparm settings without the user changing these files, there's > just a nice place to put all of it pre-configured to accept the > hdparm info that gets installed with hdparm. > > It's more convenient but not a necessity... > > -- > Nate Duehr, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On my system I have a file /etc/hdparm.conf that is used for this until recently it used to be /etc/default/hdparm both files are called from the /etc/init.d/hdparm and were installed from the Debian package. [01:12 PM Tue Jan 13: stephen @ ~] >$ dpkg -S hdparm.conf hdparm: /etc/hdparm.conf [01:13 PM Tue Jan 13: stephen @ ~] >$ dpkg -L hdparm /. /usr /usr/share /usr/share/doc /usr/share/doc/hdparm /usr/share/doc/hdparm/README.acoustic /usr/share/doc/hdparm/README.Debian /usr/share/doc/hdparm/copyright /usr/share/doc/hdparm/changelog.gz /usr/share/doc/hdparm/contrib /usr/share/doc/hdparm/contrib/idectl /usr/share/doc/hdparm/contrib/README /usr/share/doc/hdparm/contrib/ultrabayd /usr/share/doc/hdparm/changelog.Debian.gz /usr/share/man /usr/share/man/man8 /usr/share/man/man8/hdparm.8.gz /etc /etc/init.d /etc/init.d/hdparm /etc/apm /etc/apm/event.d /etc/apm/event.d/20hdparm /etc/hdparm.conf /sbin /sbin/hdparm Stephen Cormier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
