On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 09:40:07AM -0400, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > Is it possible to fine tune disk parameters using hdparm and if so how > > should it be done as i have two disks in the array? > > It's usually not worth it. Doing > echo 511 > /proc/sys/vm/max-readahead > might be worth it if you have a kernel where that flag exists... > > (And specifying "ide3=ata66" on the lilo/kernel commandline might help if > you have a special 80 ribbon IDE UDMA/100 cable) PDC20268: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 58 PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 00:0b.0 PDC20268: chipset revision 2 PDC20268: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later PDC20268: pci-config space interrupt mirror fixed. PDC20268: (U)DMA Burst Bit ENABLED Primary MASTER Mode Secondary MASTER Mode. ide2: BM-DMA at 0x9000-0x9007, BIOS settings: hde:pio, hdf:pio ide3: BM-DMA at 0x9008-0x900f, BIOS settings: hdg:pio, hdh:pio What about ide2 ? Morten