Re: tweaking ide and hdparm settings

My idea for a quick hack was:

for n in /mnt/udrive/mp3dir/*
do cp $n /tmp/tmp.mp3
mpg321 /tmp/tmp.mp3
done

(This breaks for mp3's with spaces in their names, and mp3s that would
fill the ramdrive, a more sophisticated script could be written ;)

--
Tweaking the uDrive access parameters, and virtual memory settings would
obviously be a better solution.
-- Adam Lydick
On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 12:13:56PM -0400, salo_at_confused.zooid.org wrote:
> greetings all,
> 
> i was wondering if we all could share our thoughts on tweaking the ide
> and hdparm settings to get maximal battery life out of a udrive.
> 
> in particular i would like to have a ~10MB read ahead cache so entire mp3s
> can be loaded at a time. this would seemingly have a huge effect on
> battery life for those of us who listen to lots of mp3s.
> 
> also i recently went back to familiar for the sole reason that my run time
> with intimate was not even a day of use. i think this could likely be
> remedied with the proper tweaks.
> 
> so, whats the best way to do this?
> 
> TiM