• Bug#265969: hdparm: please add a udeb

    From Colin Watson@1:229/2 to Stephen Gran on Mon Aug 16 10:30:14 2004
    From: [email protected]

    On Sun, Aug 15, 2004 at 10:30:13PM -0400, Stephen Gran wrote:
    This one time, at band camp, Colin Watson said:
    Package: hdparm
    Version: 5.5-4
    Severity: wishlist

    It'd be useful to be able to tune CD-ROM drive parameters in debian-installer; the poor thing is very slow at reading packages off
    the CD, and I've had a suggestion that hdparming the CD-ROM drive would improve it quite a bit. Here's a patch:

    http://www.no-name-yet.com/patches/hdparm.udeb.diff

    I will. Thanks for thinking of it.

    When does this have to be done by? I am trying to resolve some
    lingering breakage that happens with udev and also with needing to load modules before hdparm'ing a drive, but I will upload this only and go
    back to the other if this is needed soon.

    At the moment, I'm just doing this in a Debian derivative distribution,
    so I've already made the changes there. I suspect this is too late for debian-installer for sarge, and I hadn't been planning to rush the
    changes through there and risk breaking things, although if an hdparm
    upload happened in the next week or so it might be possible.

    Thanks,

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  • From Stephen Gran@1:229/2 to Colin Watson on Mon Aug 16 12:30:14 2004
    From: [email protected]

    This one time, at band camp, Colin Watson said:
    On Sun, Aug 15, 2004 at 10:30:13PM -0400, Stephen Gran wrote:
    This one time, at band camp, Colin Watson said:
    It'd be useful to be able to tune CD-ROM drive parameters in debian-installer; the poor thing is very slow at reading packages off
    the CD, and I've had a suggestion that hdparming the CD-ROM drive would improve it quite a bit. Here's a patch:

    When does this have to be done by? I am trying to resolve some
    lingering breakage that happens with udev and also with needing to load modules before hdparm'ing a drive, but I will upload this only and go
    back to the other if this is needed soon.

    At the moment, I'm just doing this in a Debian derivative distribution,
    so I've already made the changes there. I suspect this is too late for debian-installer for sarge, and I hadn't been planning to rush the
    changes through there and risk breaking things, although if an hdparm
    upload happened in the next week or so it might be possible.

    Well, I'm fairly sure it's low risk, but I agree about changing debian-installer at this late a date. I have temporarily reverted my
    other work and applied your patch, and could upload any time if you
    think it's worth it. I will, OTOH, hold off if you think that
    uploading will be disruptive.

    I feel like it's more important to finalize debian-installer than to see
    a particular package make it in, so I defer to your judgement - you are
    more active in that arena tha I am.
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  • From Colin Watson@1:229/2 to All on Mon Aug 16 03:00:10 2004
    From: [email protected]

    Package: hdparm
    Version: 5.5-4
    Severity: wishlist

    It'd be useful to be able to tune CD-ROM drive parameters in
    debian-installer; the poor thing is very slow at reading packages off
    the CD, and I've had a suggestion that hdparming the CD-ROM drive would
    improve it quite a bit. Here's a patch:

    http://www.no-name-yet.com/patches/hdparm.udeb.diff

    Thanks,

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    Colin Watson [[email protected]]


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  • From Stephen Gran@1:229/2 to Colin Watson on Mon Aug 16 05:00:08 2004
    From: [email protected]

    This one time, at band camp, Colin Watson said:
    Package: hdparm
    Version: 5.5-4
    Severity: wishlist

    It'd be useful to be able to tune CD-ROM drive parameters in debian-installer; the poor thing is very slow at reading packages off
    the CD, and I've had a suggestion that hdparming the CD-ROM drive would improve it quite a bit. Here's a patch:

    http://www.no-name-yet.com/patches/hdparm.udeb.diff

    I will. Thanks for thinking of it.

    When does this have to be done by? I am trying to resolve some
    lingering breakage that happens with udev and also with needing to load
    modules before hdparm'ing a drive, but I will upload this only and go
    back to the other if this is needed soon.

    Thank for reporting,
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