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Old 01-19-2003, 06:14 AM   #1
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The command hpdarm


Yeah I've heard about this command which is supposed to speed up or allow you to configure ide hard disks. I'm not sure if it's hdparm or hpdarm but neither is a recognised command on my mandrake 9.0 distro.
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Old 01-19-2003, 06:58 AM   #2
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hdparm

its probably in /sbin or /usr/sbin, which will not be in the default path of a user, actually root has to run it, and if you su, you inherit the path of the original login unless you use: "su -" which will re-log you in entirely as root. Or you can just type in the command with the full path: "/usr/sbin/hdparm" If its not installed, its definately on the mandrake disks as an RPM, and its not part of another package usually so it should just be called hdparm. The first one you're going to want to take a look at is:

hdparm -i /dev/hda (for instance)

That'll show you what the drive is capable of doing and what it is doing right now.

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Old 01-19-2003, 05:07 PM   #3
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thanks mate.
 
Old 01-21-2003, 01:07 AM   #4
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The long: http://linux.oreillynet.com/pub/a/li...29/hdparm.html

A very good article on hdparm and how to use it best

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