From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Jair-Rohm" Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 08:58:46 +0000 Subject: hdparm... MIME-Version: 1 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0016_01BEF3A3.E4143160" Message-Id: List-Id: To: linux-sound@vger.kernel.org This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0016_01BEF3A3.E4143160 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable High; I followed a thread for a while concerning mp3 playback performance on = Linux boxes. Benno suggested using 'hdparm' to tune EIDE hard disks. I = am running Red Hat 6 on a p133 laptop with 16 megs of ram. I use sox, = MixViews, Cecilia, snd and BladeEnc for mp3 encoding. My mp3 player is = X11Amp. To date, i've not had any problems with resources. Surfing with = Netscape while processing a file in Cecilia and having a couple of terms = open presents no strain. Things run smoothly. Which leads me to the = question, "...hmmm...can things be better?".=20 The man page for 'hdparm' mentions something about use of the '-m' = option potentially resulting in "...massive filesystem corruption." This = of course if your EIDE drive "lies" about its support for multiple mode. Anyone have any experience with this? Thanks ------=_NextPart_000_0016_01BEF3A3.E4143160 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

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I followed a thread for a while concerning = mp3 playback=20 performance on Linux boxes. Benno suggested using 'hdparm' to tune EIDE = hard=20 disks. I am running Red Hat 6 on a p133 laptop with 16 megs of ram. I = use sox,=20 MixViews, Cecilia, snd and BladeEnc for mp3 encoding. My mp3 player is = X11Amp.=20 To date, i've not had any problems with resources. Surfing with Netscape = while=20 processing a file in Cecilia and having a couple of terms open presents = no=20 strain. Things run smoothly. Which leads me to the question, = "...hmmm...can=20 things be better?".

The man page for 'hdparm' mentions something = about use=20 of the '-m' option potentially resulting in "...massive filesystem=20 corruption." This of course if your EIDE drive "lies" = about its=20 support for multiple mode.

Anyone have any experience with = this?

Thanks

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