[mythtv-users] Any ideas how to make my hard drive shut up?

Raphael Pooser rpooser at gmail.com
Thu Jun 8 23:07:21 UTC 2006


Richard Bronosky wrote:
> On 6/6/06, Richard Bronosky <mythtv at bronosky.com> wrote:
>   
>> Which makes me wonder why you can do hdparm -M128 /dev/hda
>>     
>
> CARP!  That's embarrasing I just realized the CAPITAL M!
>
> anyway, we'll see how it does now:
> [code]
> root at mythtv:~# hdparm -tT /dev/hda
>
> /dev/hda:
>  Timing cached reads:   1484 MB in  2.00 seconds = 740.26 MB/sec
>  Timing buffered disk reads:  184 MB in  3.02 seconds =  61.00 MB/sec
> root at mythtv:~# hdparm -M128 /dev/hda
>
> /dev/hda:
>  setting acoustic management to 128
>  acoustic     =  0 (128=quiet ... 254=fast)
> root at mythtv:~# hdparm -tT /dev/hda
>
> /dev/hda:
>  Timing cached reads:   1468 MB in  2.00 seconds = 732.65 MB/sec
>  Timing buffered disk reads:  182 MB in  3.00 seconds =  60.60 MB/sec
> [/code]
>
>   
Sorry, still haven't got around to posting my dparm -i.  Always 
forgetting by the time I get home.
Did -M128 help at all?  I'll put up the info tonight hopefully; it looks 
like it didn't hit you too bad on performance at all though.


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