Alexander Dalloz wrote: <snip>>
Well, this configuration file is take by /etc/rc.sysinit and therefore take when kernel is loaded and drives are already recognized. See line 730ff. It just also calls hdparm. So I see no difference in doing it later.
At some stage in Redhat, changing hdparm setting on the fly was disabled, forcing you to do it in /etc/sysconfig/harddisks .
Clearly this is not necessarry or has been changed again for some reason.
In any case you can make the change in /etc/sysconfig/harddisks so that the change is consistently applied if it helps.
Cheers, Michael
