Re: disk problems or false alarm??

From: Alexander Dalloz (alexander.dalloz_at_uni-bielefeld.de)
Date: 04/30/04

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    Am Fr, den 30.04.2004 schrieb Guolin Cheng um 22:54:

    > My only concern is, I have been using "hdparm -d1 -c3 -m16 -a16 -A1 -u1 -W1 -k1 -K1
    > " command on all 4 PATA hard drives, to speed up disk access speed, and improve
    > machines' responsiveness. All other options seems OK except "-u1", which, according
    > to manual, may bring "massive filesystem corruption" (Although for 3 years I have seen
    > no file system corruptions because of that). But if I don't enable the options, the Linux
    > boxes will response way slow to keyboard when high-speed data transfer happens.

    > Guolin Cheng

    Well, forcing such agressive settings like you did is often cause for
    trouble. I don't wonder any more. You did not mention such
    non-selfdetected settings in your first mail. Communication between the
    hard drive and the motherboard hardware using the chipset specific
    driver is critical. In most every case you should let the kernel
    autodetect the drives settings and not force things.

    Alexander

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