[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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