On Fri, Apr 21, 2000 at 01:45:17AM +0100, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Apr 2000, Paul Jakma wrote:
>
> > I gather the intention is that your powertweak is (or already
> > has in 2.3??) to replace the pci-quirks code in linux.
>
> PCI bridge tuning in particular was the original aim.
Has there been any consideration of tuning hard drives (turning on DMA,
32-bit transfers, etc)? It seems as though this tool would be a good
place to put this type of tuning, rather than referring people to hdparm.
Perhaps some auto-tuning (via GUI/curses) would be good too. Being able to
click on something that would do some benchmarks on each hard drive,
then activate the optimal settings would be good. Of course this should
have (overridable?) protections againts "option X can cause severe file
system corruption with IDE chipset Y on linux < a.b.c."
Or am I thinking of an entirely different tool that has already been
written or should be written, and is probably being talked about on
linux-luserland@somewhere as opposed to this list?
Mike
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