Faster RedHat with idebus

tjm · 11-09-2002, 04:13 PM

I have noticed that at boot RH 8.0 assumes 33mhz for my idebus speed.

I have a ATA/100 harddrive, does that mean I should set idebus to 100?

If so, how would I go about doing that - hdparm -X 100 /dev/hdexx ??

Thanks

-Tim

jharris · 11-12-2002, 09:49 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by tjm
I have a ATA/100 harddrive, does that mean I should set idebus to 100?

It sure does! You need to pass this to your kernel at boot time. On the assumption you are using LILO you can edit /etc/lilo.conf to contain the following

Code:

append = "idebus=100"

or you can type imageName idebus=100 everytime you boot your machine (where imageName is the name of the LILO image you wish to boot). Remember to run 'lilo' again if you edit /etc/lilo.conf or it'll make no difference!

cheers HTH

Jamie...