1) No, I don't believe there are man pages for any of the scripts in rc.d. Looking at it, it's just a startup script that runs hdparm on the hd# defined in rc.config 2) If you run YaST2:s 'tuning' option, it will inform you that the changes won't take effect until the next reboot, but running rcidedma start will do it immediately. That was where I found this. In general, the SuSE things are documented in the manuals. Don't know if *everything* is in there, but there's a lot. I haven't read all of it, and I just ordered 7.2 which will have a whole bunch of new things to learn and... (Could someone arrange for more than 24 hours in a day please :) Regards Anders On Saturday 16 June 2001 00:16, Mark W. Knecht wrote:
Anders, Two questions:
1) There's no man page, or at least man rcidedma didn't work for me.
2) Where do you discover these things?
Thanks, Mark
-----Original Message----- From: Anders Johansson [mailto:andjoh@cicada.linux-site.net] Sent: Friday, June 15, 2001 3:06 PM To: Mark W. Knecht; stclair@niue.nu; Suse-Linux-E (E-mail) Subject: Re: RE: Re: [SLE] Subject: extremely slow IDE-disk with SUSE Linux 7.0
rcidedma start (after configuring in rc.config) perhaps
Regards Anders
On Saturday 16 June 2001 00:03, Mark W. Knecht wrote:
God it's wonderful to know that I'm not the only person that has these problems. I heard on the postfix reflector the other day that "The first thing everyone does is turn on DMA".
My /etc/rc.d/init.d/boot.local file has the commands I'm using. I'd love
to
know what the 'right' way to do it is. (See my earlier post about how I suck at configuring machines!)
-----Original Message----- From: Internet Niue [mailto:stclair@niue.nu] Sent: Friday, June 15, 2001 2:49 PM To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: Re: RE: Re: [SLE] Subject: extremely slow IDE-disk with SUSE Linux 7.0
Um, I notice that my drives are in the 16 bit mode....I can set them with
hdparm -c 1 /dev/hda
But how do you make them boot that way?
OK - it does look like the drive so far, but the unbuffered speeds look like DMA is turned off. Let's see if that helps:
hdparm -v /dev/hda will tell us how the drive is set up hdparm -c 1 -d 1 /dev/hda should enable DMA if it's off hdparm -tT /dev/hda will test speeds again
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