Re: [TCLUG:14077] IDE tweaking for Linux

[Mike Hicks <hick0088@tc.umn.edu>]

Karl Morgan wrote:
> 
> Not sure if this will help you or not. I got about 40% increase
> in performance from this info.
> 
> http://tunelinux.com/bin/page?hardware/ide/
> 

Beware when you use hdparm, though.  I've had it cause big problems. 
One time, I had just downloaded the RedHat 6.1 iso and wanted to burn it
onto a CD.  It turned out that my hdparm settings screwed up a
partition-to-partition move operation by flipping a bit here and there. 
I ended up downloading the whole iso again.

Then again, maybe my whole IDE subsystem is screwed up...

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