harddrive

Xamot · n00b Joined: 20 May 2002 Posts: 29

I saw noticable performace increase by tweaking my hdparm settings. I did this by adding a line to /etc/conf.d/local.start that turned on dma, umasked irqs, 32-bit i/o, and some other things with hdparm.

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=51&highlight=hdparm is a good resource.

lx · Posted: Mon Jun 03, 2002 9:35 pm Post subject:

You can also set it using the kernel option

Xamot · n00b Joined: 20 May 2002 Posts: 29

hrm, I replyed to something. Where'd the rest of this thread go?