On Thu, 2003-03-20 at 09:45, Kevin Bowen wrote: > Hmm, I wasn't previously aware of /etc/sysconfig/harddisks... I had just been > calling hdparm from rc.local.... good to know. > > Unfortunately, that doesn't really solve my problem... I'm curious, what features > did you have enabled which resulted in data corruption? the man page warns of > corruption with unmaskirq, so I haven't tried it, but I've seen it enabled on other > systems by default with no harm done, and I suspect it would provide a performance > boost for my application. >
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