Editing hdparm.conf

[Markus Kolb]

ayam wrote on Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 08:09:51 -0500:
> 
> Thanks guys for your discussion. I should clarify a few things. The
> objective of my original message was:
> 1) How to edit hdparm.conf to reflect the command line options that you
> type thru terminal as sudo. I guess this is more important to me but
> objective  (2)  is related to 

Yeah I know. 
Doesn't my example work?

> 
> 2) How do I get both my harddrives  to UDMA66

That would do 
hdparm -d1 -X68 /dev/hda
hdparm -d1 -X68 /dev/hdb

You have to put in the whole command like you would write at the command 
line to /etc/hdparm.conf. Not only the options.

The following commands show you the current configuration in different
verbosity:
hdparm /dev/hd?
hdparm -i /dev/hd?
hdparm -I /dev/hd?

The active modes are marked with a star (*).

Should the problem drive be faster than it is? About which transfer rate do 
we talk?

Markus