Harddrive tweaks

[Mitchybums]

I just got me a new laptop harddrive, and I was wondering.
It's a 40 gb toshiba on 5400 rpm and it has 16mb cache.
anyone has any idea's on how to tweak this baby to the max??
right now running the hdparm -c1 -d1 -u1 -k1 -m16 on it (laptop doesnt run higher than udma2)

Is there any way to make it run faster??

thx

[magnet]

what about -X66 or X69 ?
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[TwistedKestrel]

*16* mb cache?

[Mitchybums]

--Toshiba Website info.

40GB 2.5" Super Slimline (9.5mm) HDD
MK4019GAX (HDD2171)

Toshiba America Information Systems, Inc. (TAIS), Storage Device Division introduces the MK4019GAX 2.5-inch 40GB Hard Disk Drive. The MK4019GAX offers the industries highest areal density per platter, at 34.7 gigabits per square inch. The drive's 5400 RPM motor speed, improves system-level performance by as much as 12 percent when compared to 4200 RPM drives.


This new drive offers enough capacity for portable video recording and editing, with lower power consumption compared to the traditional 3.5-inch HDDs. This functionality provides ideal storage for a range of commercial and consumer notebooks, as well as non-PC applications such as PDAs, printers, copiers, GPS systems and MP3 players. The MK4019GAX is ATA-5 compliant, supporting high transfer rates of up to 100 megabytes per second.

40GB capacity
Rotational Speed of 5,400rpm
Fluid Dynamic Bearing (FDB) motor drive
9.5mm High
12ms Average Seek Time
ATA-5 Interface
100MB/sec Transfer Rate
16,384KB Buffer
300,000 MTTF Hours

hdparm -iI /dev/hda

Model=TOSHIBA MK4019GAX, FwRev=FA002A, Config={ Fixed }
RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=46
BuffType=unknown, BuffSize=0kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=16
CurCHS=16383/16/63, CurSects=16514064, LBA=yes, LBAsects=78140160
IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:120,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120}
PIO modes: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4
DMA modes: sdma0 sdma1 sdma2 mdma0 mdma1 mdma2
UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 *udma2 udma3 udma4 udma5
AdvancedPM=yes: unknown setting WriteCache=enabled
Drive conforms to: device does not report version: 1 2 3 4 5

ATA device, with non-removable media
Model Number: TOSHIBA MK4019GAX
Serial Number: 23BD1225T
Firmware Revision: FA002A
Standards:
Supported: 5 4 3 2
Likely used: 6
Configuration:
Logical max current
cylinders 16383 16383
heads 16 16
sectors/track 63 63
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CHS current addressable sectors: 16514064
LBA user addressable sectors: 78140160
device size with M = 1024*1024: 38154 MBytes
device size with M = 1000*1000: 40007 MBytes (40 GB)
Capabilities:
LBA, IORDY(can be disabled)
bytes avail on r/w long: 46 Queue depth: 1
Standby timer values: spec'd by Standard, no device specific minimum
R/W multiple sector transfer: Max = 16 Current = 16
Advanced power management level: unknown setting (0x009f)
DMA: sdma0 sdma1 sdma2 mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 udma0 udma1 *udma2 udma3 udma4
udma5
Cycle time: min=120ns recommended=120ns
PIO: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4
Cycle time: no flow control=120ns IORDY flow control=120ns
Commands/features:
Enabled Supported:
* NOP cmd
* READ BUFFER cmd
* WRITE BUFFER cmd
* Host Protected Area feature set
* Look-ahead
* Write cache
* Power Management feature set
Security Mode feature set
* SMART feature set
* Mandatory FLUSH CACHE command
* Device Configuration Overlay feature set
SET MAX security extension
* Advanced Power Management feature set
* SMART self-test
* SMART error logging
Security:
Master password revision code = 65534
supported
not enabled
not locked
frozen
not expired: security count
not supported: enhanced erase
36min for SECURITY ERASE UNIT.
HW reset results:
CBLID- above Vih
Device num = 0 determined by the jumper
Checksum: correct

Harddrive is placed in a IBM Thinkpad T20 on a BX chipset motherboard with 512 mb memory and a pIII 700m

[TripKnot]

Well I have the exact same hardrive and use the following line in my /etc/conf.d/local.start file:


/sbin/hdparm -qa16qc1qd1qm16qS240qu1 /dev/ide/hd/*u? &> /dev/null


You may want to strip the S option that spins down the drive.

[Slammer]

There is a special configuration file to declare the hdparm parameters. Is the /etc/conf.d/hdparm