Restoring hdparm settings at boot....

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RD1 · Post by **RD1** » Sun Feb 29, 2004 3:03 am

OK...this is probably a stupid question that has been covered a million times, but I have yet to find a simple answer.

How do I get hdparm settings to save?

Specifically: hdparm -c1 /dev/hdd

DMA is not a problem...enabled in kernel-2.6.2

Thanks for any help,

Rodger

jbc28 · Post by **jbc28** » Sun Feb 29, 2004 3:11 am

edit /etc/conf.d/hdparm
make sure hdparm is started
rc-update add hdparm boot
J

RD1 · Post by **RD1** » Sun Feb 29, 2004 1:22 pm

Thanks! That did the trick.

Rodger

Crashed_Again · Post by **Crashed_Again** » Thu Mar 04, 2004 12:34 pm

hmmm...one more question which may be a little silly. My /etc/conf.d/hdparm script looks like this:

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# Copyright 2003 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-conf.d,v 1.1 2003/03/01 21:17:39 sethbc Exp $

# You can either set hdparm arguments for each drive using disc*_args and cdrom*_args..
# eg.
# disc0_args="-d1 -X66"
# disc1_args"-d1"
# cdrom0_args="-d1"

# Or, you can set hdparm options for ALL drives using all_args..
# eg.
# this mimics the behavior of the current script
all_args="-d1"

Now the hdparm command that is working well for me is:

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# hdparm -X66 -d1 -u1 -m16 -c3 /dev/hdb

From the hdparm configuration file I'm assuming that if I pass all those arguments to the all_args variable these settings will be used for my cdrom as well. I only want these settings for /dev/hdb. I'm thinking that I have to have:

disc1_args"-X66 -d1 -u1 -m16 -c3"

set to get those effects on /dev/hdb. Is this correct? Does disc1_args represent /dev/hdb? Sanity check.

coredumb · Post by **coredumb** » Thu Mar 04, 2004 1:14 pm

It does.

Crashed_Again · Post by **Crashed_Again** » Thu Mar 04, 2004 10:26 pm

Thank you.