On Monday 15 January 2001 09:48, Stefano Papini wrote:
Hello linux guys, after wandering on several docs I had to recognize that for both of my UDMA drives (IBM 4.3 and Quantum EL 7.6GB) the UDMA feature slow them down rather than speed them up.
After I compiled the kernel with the appropriate options, I no longer need to pass on the hdparm to my IDE 66 Maxtor hdrive. So, you may be experiencing something similar. At any rate, my options used to be: hdparm -c3 -m16 -d1 -u1 and lilo.conf read: image = /boot/vmlinuz root = /dev/hda6 label = linux append="hdc=ide-scsi idebus=66" ### notice the idebus=66 (don't forget to run lilo to make it effective, but before test it by passing it at the lilo prompt, like, linux idebus=66) Adjust it to your needs and read man hdarm (thorough man page). Hope it helps, Alvaro Novo SuSE 6.4 -=- Kernel 2.4.0-prerelease -=- KDE 2.1.0-Beta1-0 10:39am up 3 days, 21:27, 3 users, load average: 0.31, 0.19, 0.11