/etc/sysconfig/harddisks deprecated?

[Dax Kelson]

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).

AFAIK the IO 16 vs 32 bit setting *only* comes into play when DMA is not
enabled (i.e when you are in PIO mode).

Your question on /etc/sysconfig/harddisks is a good one though.

Dax Kelson