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TheCyberDude
04-17-2002, 08:31 AM
HDD 32BIT [Access]

/etc/rc.d/rc.local
Add following line at bottom of rc.local!

#Added by Garry Winkle
#This sets 32 bit I/O and DMA for Hard Drive.
hdparm -X69 -d1 -u1 -m16 -c3 /dev/hde

[Must have hdparm installed!]

NOTE: -X66 for DMA 66MHZ
NOTE: -X69 for DMA 100MHZ

REF:Speeding Up Linux (http://linux.oreillynet.com/pub/a/linux/2000/06/29/hdparm.html)

REF: Hard Drive Speed Tweak for Linux (http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/hardware/hdtweak.html)