'Drake drive optimization (MKIII ?)

[drmbb]

I'm hoping some other mandrake users can help me out here.

For a variety of reasons (shifting partitions and such) I decided to reinstall 'Drake 7.1. This time, just for a change, I chose the "optimize hard drives" option in the install. The performance is great, better than when I would optimize my drives in the past! But where does Mandrake put the optimization parameters???

When I do it manually, I stick my hdparm settings in rc.sysinit - this time, I've been plowing through stuff in /rc.d, but can't find where the install stuck the optimaziton settings. Anyone know where these are??


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Michael
mbblack@cstone.net

"Oh my god I'm going to be sucked into a black hole I'll be sucked into oblivion and what comes out the other side, I don't know" Homer Simpson (may be not exact, but the spirit of the thought is there).

[1pcWarren]

I know for sure that Mandrake use ide autotune in 7.2, & beleve that they switched to doing it in 7.1. It's called from a line like:
"append=IDE1=autotune"
in your /etc/lilo.conf.

You can safely put a hdparm line in one of your /etc/rc.d files though, I use:

hdparm -c1d1m16u1k1 /dev/hda

in /etc/rc.d/rc.local

Warning! using unsupported settings can cause massive data corruption! "man hdparm" 1st! (don't try a umaskirq on your CDROM like I did http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/redface.gif)



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[MkIII_Supra]

I put all my drive performance parameters in /etc/rc.local like shown below:


# Hard Drive speed tweak
hdparm -c 1 -d 1 -k 1 /dev/hda
hdparm -c 1 -d 1 -k 1 /dev/hdb

# FakeBo Start up
/usr/local/bin/fakebo -b
echo "Fakebo started."

# PortSentry StartUp
/usr/local/psionic/portsentry/portsentry -stcp
/usr/local/psionic/portsentry/portsentry -sudp
echo "Port Sentry is now active and on gaurd!"

# Firewall Start Up
/etc/xxxxxxxxx/rc.firewall
echo "Firewall started."

# THIS IS TO START THE IPLOG PROGRAM AT BOOT!
/usr/sbin/iplog -l /var/log/ip.log
echo "Internet address logging has been enabled.


Unfortunatly I haven't had time to really dig into my Linux box / layout, I basically installed, patched, set-up security then set-up all productivity and started using it. I haven't rebooted in:


5:32am up 18 days, 5:31, 1 user, load average: 0.02, 0.09, 0.09
66 processes: 62 sleeping, 4 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states: 4.1% user, 3.5% system, 0.0% nice, 92.2% idle
Mem: 196192K av, 193332K used, 2860K free, 0K shrd, 4172K buff
Swap: 249408K av, 3520K used, 245888K free 101808K cached

and I don't plan to until Debian comes out with the 2.4 kernel. Then I will go and buy Debian and the Metro Link Video drivers for the new 32MB Nvidia video card I will be obtaining pretty soon. After that install my system won't be rebooted until after I get out of the Navy in about 20 months as of the 30th of this month.

Maybe when I get out of school I can spend a little more time rooting through the Linux system, until then it just has to run so I can use it daily. Sorry I can't be a more help than this. http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/frown.gif

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