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paramthegreat
Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 12 Aug 2002
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 Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2003 3:20 am Post subject: dparm setting change and disable dma |
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hi all,
i am using gentoo 1.4rc-2. i have been trying to use hdparm to boost my hdd performance. i currently have hdparm-5.3-r2 installed and initially had hdparam-5.2-r3. i try the following
| Code: | | hdparm -X66 -d1 -u1 -m16 -c3 /dev/hda |
version 5.2 would maintain the setting after running benchmark, but latest 5.3 disable dma everytime i try i run the benchmark. this never happened with 5.2
any help pls
thanx
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jbssm
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Joined: 02 Jan 2003
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Location: Portugal
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Hello.
At least in old versions of hdparm you have to use the -k (keep) option to keep the settings.
But what you really should do is to put that line in /etc/conf.d/local.start, so that you system executes it every time it boots.
Bruno morgado |
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