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

[Fernando Lopez-Lezcano]

On Mon, 2005-03-28 at 15:14, Cassandra Cooper wrote:
> sorry.  I mean: '/etc/sysconfig'

Ok, do you have the "hdparm" package installed? That's the "owner" of
the file, if it is installed it should be there...

-- Fernando

> >>> "Fernando Lopez-Lezcano" <nando@ccrma.Stanford.EDU> 3/28/2005 5:11:55 PM >>>
> 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?