From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 10 23:04:08 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E39E16A4CE for ; Mon, 10 Jan 2005 23:04:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail3.speakeasy.net (mail3.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.203]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1563E43D2F for ; Mon, 10 Jan 2005 23:04:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: (qmail 23242 invoked from network); 10 Jan 2005 23:04:07 -0000 Received: from dsl092-078-145.bos1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO be-well.ilk.org) ([66.92.78.145]) (envelope-sender ) by mail3.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 10 Jan 2005 23:04:07 -0000 Received: by be-well.ilk.org (Postfix, from userid 1147) id 9ED8944; Mon, 10 Jan 2005 18:04:06 -0500 (EST) Sender: lowell@be-well.ilk.org To: Kirk Strauser References: <200501101541.01854.kirk@strauser.com> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 10 Jan 2005 18:04:06 -0500 In-Reply-To: <200501101541.01854.kirk@strauser.com> Message-ID: <443bx8khsp.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Lines: 13 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: hdparm for FreeBSD? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 23:04:08 -0000 Kirk Strauser writes: > Linux users have a tool, hdparm, that lets them adjust all sorts of > drive characteristics (read look-ahead, 32-bit I/O, multi-sector > I/O, and so on) beyond the normal things seen in the hw.ata tree. > Is there an equivalent for FreeBSD? You mean like atacontrol(8)? Or maybe you mean something more like tunefs(8)? -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/