On Sat, 1 Jun 2002 00:44:31 +0200
Wolfgang Bornath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 18:13 -0400, Richie de Almeida wrote:
>
> > I kinda figured something was a little odd with -17mdk as I did try
> > to compile it myself and selecting compiling for Athlon/K7 always
> > failed and even when I didn't I got some funny messages about 'int's
> > not being the right size-- I take it that gcc 3.1 uses more bytes
> > for some data types-- whatever-- I'm going to install gcc 3.1 this
> > weekend and see if things get better.
> >
> > FWIW, I got the boot parameters going, using "ide0=0x1f0 ide0=ata66'
> > on 2.4.18-7mdk. Strange how these parameters are asking for ata66
> > yet the system enables ata100 (hdparm tells me I'm at udma5)...
> > Regardless it's great to have another method to fall back on if
> > later kernels don't behave as nicely as -13mdk and -17mdk...
>
> I've been following this thread from the start and now tried to
> experiment with my harddisk. I did not find hdparm!
>
> I did a 'urpmi hdparm' and it installed the packages 'pciutils' and
> 'powertweak'. But still I get 'bash: hdparm: command not found' when I
> try to start it. slocate does not find hdparm (yes, I did updatedb).
>
> # slocate hdparm
> /usr/lib/powertweak/plugins/libhdparmtweaks.so.0
> /usr/lib/powertweak/plugins/libhdparmtweaks.so.0.0.0
>
> WTF?
hdparm comes from hdparm-4.6-1mdk in 8.2 and should be in the /sbin
directory. It's not installed by default. and I believe it is on disk 2
but I don't have my disks handy so told hold my feet to the fire on that
part.
James
>
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