On Mon, 2005-08-15 at 15:45 -0500, Michel Alexandre Salim wrote:
I normally tune my hard drives using /etc/sysconfig/harddisks, back
when
using FC2, and after a few months of not running Fedora it was quite
surprising to me to find the settings not applied (my laptop boots Linux
with DMA enabled but IO support set to 16-bits, so the slow-down is
noticeable).
AFAIK the IO 16 vs 32 bit setting *only* comes into play when DMA is not
enabled (i.e when you are in PIO mode).
Your question on /etc/sysconfig/harddisks is a good one though.
Dax Kelson