/etc/sysconfig/harddisks deprecated?

[Alan Cox]

On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 12:02:32PM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-08-15 at 18:09 -0400, Alan Cox wrote:
> > As always #2 is "use the kernel settings". Hdparm is for the "I really
> > know what I am doing" cases.
> 
> My telephone exchange always introduces echo on the line unless I run
> 'hdparm -u1 /dev/hda'. Are we being overly conservative with that
> default?

For most PCI IDE controllers yes I think so. I'd be more caution on RZ1000
or CMD640 but I think a patch to turn irq unmask on by default for the others
would be good. Bartlomiej might well accept it if you sent it too