/etc/sysconfig/harddisks deprecated?

[Dariusz J. Garbowski]

On 08/16/2005 02:20 AM, David Zeuthen wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-08-15 at 15:45 -0500, Michel Alexandre Salim wrote:
> 
>>I normally tune my hard drives using /etc/sysconfig/harddisks, back when
>>using FC2, and after a few months of not running Fedora it was quite
>>surprising to me to find the settings not applied (my laptop boots Linux
>>with DMA enabled but IO support set to 16-bits, so the slow-down is
>>noticeable).
>>
>>rpm -q --changelog initscripts | grep hdparm shows that Bill Nottingham
>>removed this in December 2004, so the questions are:
>>
>>1. Shouldn't hdparm not include /e/s/harddisks anymore?
>>2. What is the current recommended method to tune hard drives?
> 
> 
> The current plan that we (the Red Hat desktop team) for FC5 involves
> putting gnome-power-manager in the distribution which includes
> automating all of this. Simply put, we just want two settings and flip
> between these for the laptop use case, e.g. when transitioning from
> running on AC power to running on battery / UPS. This probably involves
> things like setting harddisk spindown time and not much beyond that. We
> probably also want to enable/disable laptop-mode stuff during the
> transitions, but that is another thing.

What about those who do not use Gnome? Or even KDE for that matter (say 
they use IceWM instead)? Will it work for them?

[This is not fire up another flamewar... No flamewars, please.]

Regards,
Dariusz

		
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