On Wed, 15 Mar 2006, Michael W Cocke
Why do people insist on using a screwdriver to hammer nails?
I thought it was shoes that were used when hammering nails.
If you know enough to fool around with hdparm, you should be able to master bash and an editor.
Yes, they should. That doesn't mean that they have to.
Put this in boot.local (adjust for your local hardware):
hdparm -A1 -c1 -d1 -m16 -u1 /dev/hda hdparm -A1 -c1 -d1 -m16 -u1 /dev/hdb hdparm -A1 -c1 -d1 -m16 -u1 /dev/hdc hdparm -A1 -c1 -d1 -m16 -u1 /dev/hdd hdparm -A1 -c1 -d1 -m16 -u1 /dev/hde hdparm -A1 -c1 -d1 -m16 -u1 /dev/hdf hdparm -A1 -c1 -d1 -m16 -u1 /dev/hdg hdparm -A1 -c1 -d1 -m16 -u1 /dev/hdh hdparm -A1 -c1 -d1 -m16 -u1 /dev/hdi hdparm -A1 -c1 -d1 -m16 -u1 /dev/hdj
And here is another example of choices you can make. You can use the acceptable way of adding the above to boot.local, or you could use the other, and equally acceptable, way of adding the equivalent settings via YaST. Of course, now that others know that they can use the above in boot.local, they now have an extra piece of knowledge that is applicable to other non-SUSE Linux distributions. Regards, David Bolt -- Member of Team Acorn checking nodes at 50 Mnodes/s: http://www.distributed.net/ AMD1800 1Gb WinXP/SUSE 9.3 | AMD2400 256Mb SuSE 9.0 | A3010 4Mb RISCOS 3.11 AMD2400(32) 768Mb SUSE 10.0 | RPC600 129Mb RISCOS 3.6 | Falcon 14Mb TOS 4.02 AMD2600(64) 512Mb SUSE 10.0 | A4000 4Mb RISCOS 3.11 | STE 4Mb TOS 1.62