"Mark W. Knecht" wrote:

Hello, On other Linux distributions I've used hdparm successfully to increase hard disk speed:

hdparm -u 1 -d 1 /dev/hda

I've tested it out by hand on this box and it seems to be working fine.

The standard set of instructions I've used has had me place this in the rc.sysinit file, which I'm not finding in the SuSE distribution. I did a search on the SuSE site for both hdparm and rc.sysinti and found very little... So:

1) What is the equivalent file under SuSE for rc.sysinit

If your are using SuSE 7.1 (which comforms to the LSB) then /etc/init.d/boot.local would be the place. If earlier than 7.1 it would be /sbin/init.d/boot.local. Again though if you are using 7.1 you can set that all up via yast2 and you won't have to put it anywhere.

2) Is there a 'good' way to do this configuration using YaST or something like that?

See above (yast2)

3) Are others here doing this to improve their system performance? Anything else?

I'm sure most everyone does this..

Thanks, Mark

Regards Mark