hdparm == neat!

[troy]

On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 08:31:07PM -0800, augie wrote:
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> i had never heard of hdparm before, but i stumbled across this neat
> little utility tonight. check it out, and check out this article:

Not only neat, indispensable.  I've found that often (always?) Redhat
and Debian installs default to DMA=off.  In my experience, setting DMA=1
[ hdparm -d 1 ] is by far the biggest single performance boost.

Stumbling across something cool like this really makes one wonder what
other cool things are waiting to be learned...

-t


> http://linux.oreillynet.com/pub/a/linux/2000/06/29/hdparm.html?page=1