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>E.4. Hard Disk Speed</H1
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> Use the tool <B
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CLASS="command"
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>hdparm</B
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> to set up better harddisk
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performance. Though I have seen laptop disk enabled with
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<EM
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>striping</EM
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>, I can't see a reason to do so, because in
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my humble opinion also known as RAID0 striping needs at least two
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different disks to increase performance. Before using
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<B
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>hdparm</B
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> check the BIOS settings for harddisk
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parameters like DMA or ATA4 or 32bit transfer. The bad thing is that if
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something is disabled there - it can not be enabled with
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<B
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>hdparm</B
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>!
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> See <SPAN
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>UNIX</SPAN
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> and LINUX Computing Journal:
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>Tunable Filesystem Parameters in /proc</A
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How to increase, decrease and reconfigure filsystem behavior from within
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