Where to put hdparm commands in startup?

maw

Sorry if this has been asked before, I couldn't find it when I searched (not very good at searching, admittedly).

Where do I put hdparm commands so that Gentoo executes them on startup? I tried putting them in local.start, and they appear to execute correctly, but the weird thing is that once GDM's started up and I've logged in, the hard drives and DVD drives have reset themselves and it's as if hdparm was never run. If I then run it after logging in as root, it works fine.

So where do I put them to avoid this? Or is this a weird thing with my system that shouldn't be happening?

Thanks
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arkane · l33t Joined: 30 Apr 2002 Posts: 918 Location: Phoenix, AZ

I put my hdparm parameters into the /etc/conf.d/local.start file. (the file for miscellaneous entries) Since your putting them in there, well... hmm.. maybe there is some other program overriding it? Not sure!
I don't run GDM or KDM anymore.. never had the problem back when I ran KDM.

Malakin · Posted: Thu Sep 19, 2002 2:32 am Post subject:

If you setup your kernel well you shouldn't need to do this.

"use pci dma by default when available" is probably what you're missing.

dizzy · Posted: Thu Sep 19, 2002 2:47 am Post subject:

maw: Another place you could look at is /etc/init.d/hdparm. Use rc-update and add it to boot runlevel should do what you want.

maw · Posted: Thu Sep 19, 2002 8:20 am Post subject:

Thanks.

I've got that kernel option turned on, by the way, and it never does anything. That's across two different motherboards in recent memory, so unless it's disagreeing with VIA IDE controllers I'm baffled by that. Oh well. I'll have a look at /etc/init.d/hdparm
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de4d · Posted: Thu Sep 19, 2002 8:29 am Post subject:

maw · Posted: Fri Sep 20, 2002 7:32 pm Post subject:

As I've mentioned, the kernel options for DMA don't seem to do anything on my system. I don't know why. Besides, my boot process is fast enough for me. Very fast, actually.

I added hdparm to my default runlevel, now everything seems fine. Thanks.
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iKiddo · Guru Joined: 27 Jun 2002 Posts: 341 Location: Europe?

Hi, after having discovered the wonders of rc-update (read: made my own rc-update script

) I tried the hdparm thingy. I edited the file to my likings and then updated rc. But while booting up I got an error, I didn't have the permission to hdparm

the odd thing is, I thought the boot-up procedure was executed under root privileges ?? Why doesn't this work for me ??

Any help appreciated,
ikiddo

simon · Apprentice Joined: 26 Apr 2002 Posts: 225 Location: Vienna

Hi,

because hdparm is

ViceClown · Posted: Sat Sep 21, 2002 12:59 pm Post subject: Same problem

This is a great thread and Im having the same permission problems when trying to execute my hdparm init script:

#!/sbin/runscript
# Copyright 1999-2002 Gentoo Technologies, Inc.
# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License, v2 or later
# $Header: /home/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/sys-apps/hdparm/files/hdparm-init,v 1.1 2002/08/15 20:13:52 azarah Exp $

depend() {
need localmount
}

start() {
ebegin "Enabling DMA on IDE drives"
/sbin/hdparm -d1 /dev/hd/*u? &> /dev/null
eend
}

When I try to run it I get a :

"bash: /etc/init.d/hdparm: /sbin/runscript: bad interpreter: Permission denied" error.

Im a pretty novice scripter so Im a bit lost here. Any suggestions?

ViceClown · Posted: Sat Sep 21, 2002 1:01 pm Post subject:

Wups... got it. It WAS a permissioning thing but on the script itelf - i thought it was the hdparm command. Sweet!!

iKiddo · Guru Joined: 27 Jun 2002 Posts: 341 Location: Europe?

rojaro · l33t Joined: 06 May 2002 Posts: 732

why not simply place the command into /etc/conf.d/local.start ... thats imho the correct place to do such stuff
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simon · Apprentice Joined: 26 Apr 2002 Posts: 225 Location: Vienna

I know, it is described this way in the installation guide, but for what purpose is /etc/init.d/hdparm ?

Simon

rojaro · l33t Joined: 06 May 2002 Posts: 732

well, i'd say someone got lazy enough to create a init script, but as there are so many diffrent configurations/combinations of controllers and harddrives possible and as you can really damage your harddrives physically using an unthought hdparm setting, i think it's a bad idea to provide such a script (but thats probably the reason why it isnt executable by default).
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Naan Yaar · Bodhisattva Joined: 27 Jun 2002 Posts: 1549

Actually, having the hdparm script is correct. It just needs some work in order to gets its config parameters from /etc/conf.d like other init scripts. It is a straight-forward modification though. The state it is in right now will work for many (most?) users anyway.