[PlanetCCRMA] Need Assistance: How do I save the settings for Tuning the Hard Disks?

Fernando Lopez-Lezcano nando@ccrma.Stanford.EDU
Mon Mar 28 15:12:01 2005


On Mon, 2005-03-28 at 14:38, Cassandra Cooper wrote:
> I am following the instructions for "Tuning the System" on planetccrma
> site.  I want to save these settings: 
> /sbin/hdparm -c 3 -d 1 -m 16 -A1 /dev/hda.  
>  
> The instructions state: "Once you are satisfied with the optimization
> you have selected you can change the /etc/sysconfig/harddisks
> configuration file to put your selected options there so they are
> activated automatically when you boot the computer".  However, there
> is no directory '/sysconfig' with 'harddisks' inside.  

Is that a typo? It should be '/etc/sysconfig', not just '/sysconfig'
-- Fernando

> The same is true for the CDrom drive.
>  
> I am running Fedora Core 2, How can I store these settings to optimize
> my drives?