[CLUE-Tech] hdparm settings

[Dave Anselmi]

Jeremiah Stanley wrote:

> I have gotten DMA working with my two hard drives using hdparm. I was
> wondering if there is a way that I can pass information to the kernel that
> allows me to do this at boot from LILO and grub so that I don't have to
> have a couple of lines in /etc/rc.d/rc.local like:
>
> /sbin/hdparm -d1 -c1 -k1 /dev/hda
> /sbin/hdparm -d1 -c1 -k1 /dev/hdb
>
> Any suggestions of places to look for documentation on how I could pass
> that to the kernel at boot?

Seems to me that whatever hdparm does must be handled by the device drivers.
Docs for those are in the Documentation directory in the linux source tree
(which may be stored somewhere else depending on your distro).  Look for
something like ide.txt.

Dave