>From: Joe Van Andel <address@hidden> >Organization: National Center for Atmospheric Research >Keywords: 200405131811.i4DIButK023717 Linux IDE hdparm Hi Joe, >Here's the command I commonly add to /etc/rc.local > >/sbin/hdparm -d1 /dev/hda > >This increases the performance measured by hdparm -t /dev/hda from >5.6MB/s to 51.6MB/s I checked the 'hdparm -t' performance on the dual Athlon 2800+ machine I have in my office, and all disks reported about 51 MB/s. I went ahead and set '-d1' in /etc/rc.local to see if it would make any difference after a reboot, and it didn't. The bottleneck must be somewhere else. Thanks for the pointer to 'hdparm'! Cheers, Tom -- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ * Tom Yoksas UCAR Unidata Program * * (303) 497-8642 (last resort) P.O. Box 3000 * * address@hidden Boulder, CO 80307 * * Unidata WWW Service http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/* +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+