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Re: [cobalt-users] Qube3 - Speed Increase
- Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] Qube3 - Speed Increase
- From: "roland" <roland@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun Sep 22 02:42:00 2002
- List-id: Mailing list for users to share thoughts on Sun Cobalt products. <cobalt-users.list.cobalt.com>
That also works on RaQ 4 too, gives a huge speed increase!
> Hmmm copy and paste seems to be prone to typo's as well ;-) -- oh
> well it gives me a chance to give you a decent quick guide:
>
> As root, run the command:
>
> /sbin/hdparm -tT /dev/hda
>
> (take note of the disk read speed ratings)
>
> Then run:
>
> /sbin/hdparm -X66 -d1 -m16 -c3 /dev/hda
>
> Now run (again):
>
> /sbin/hdparm -tT /dev/hda
>
> Nice aye - now you can hack together an rc script as detailed below.
>
> Sonny.
>
> On 9/22/02 7:41 PM, "Sonny Taite" <sonny@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> >
> > You can increase the speed of your Qube3 (single disk) using the following
> > command:
> >
> > /sbin/hdparm -X66 -d1 -m16 -c3 /dev/had
> >
> >
> > THE USUAL WARNINGS :: USE AT YOUR OWN RISK - NO RESPONSIBILITY TAKEN BY ME
> > OR ASSOCIATES OF ME FOR LOSS OF INFORMATION.
> >
> > That said, the above command does not live beyond reboots so if you want
to
> > keep the extra pace, put it in an rc script in /etc/rc.d/init.d directory.
> > (I put mine in /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit while I play around).
> >
> > Sonny.
> >
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