[vox-tech] Linux Block Layer is Lame (it retries too much)

Mike Simons vox-tech@lists.lugod.org
Wed, 28 May 2003 18:35:18 -0400


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On Wed, May 28, 2003 at 02:58:30PM -0700, Michael Wenk wrote:
> In this link you have the following proc settings:=20
>=20
> echo file_readahead:0 > /proc/ide/hdc/settings
> echo breada_readahead:0 > /proc/ide/hdc/settings

*AHH*  ... I tried a handful of ways to set items in this file and
didn't get something that worked... since I found that some items could
be changed via hdparm (like breada was affected by -a), and I didn't
think the others would apply to the problem I didn't look...
  I've always wanted to play with the "current_speed" and "acoustic"
values of my drives... *:)

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