[ltp] hdparm / TP570E

[Bob Koss]

"Brian C. Huffman" <sheep@graze.net> writes:

> All,
> 
> 	I'm currently using these hdparm settings (sporadically) that I've
> rounded up from various locations.  
> 
> hdparm -c 1 -d 1 -m 16 -X 66 /dev/hda
> 
> for my TP570E laptop.  Are these reasonable?  Does anyone know if it will
> actually give you any performance increases?  I tried messing around with
> Bonnie (the disk performance benchmark tool) and didn't really see any 
> major improvements...
> 


As far as I know, the only way to determine if your parameters are
doing any good is to use hdparm -t /dev/hda  and get before and after
timings.

[root@localhost rskoss]# /sbin/hdparm -t /dev/hda

/dev/hda:
 Timing buffered disk reads:  64 MB in  6.49 seconds =  9.86 MB/sec
[root@localhost rskoss]# 


As you can see, mine just sucks.


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