Re: [Sheflug] Re: KDE2 and Qt 2.2

[Will Newton <nospam [at] misconception.org.uk>]

On Sat, 23 Sep 2000, ross wrote:

> this is what i use in my /etc/rc.d/rc.local   script
> 
> hdparm -c 1 -d 1 -k 1 -S 180 /dev/hda
> 
> this enables DMA and 32bit mode and causes the disk to spin down after about
> 20 minutes.... you'll see a fantastic change (if it works!)

The VIA support is broken in the kernel I'm using so I'd probably get lots
of fscks. One a good day with a tail wind I can get 23 Mb/s out of this
controller with no tweaking at all. :)
 

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