When disk IO goes bad

[dmorin at morinfamily.com (Duane Morin)]

On Thu, 2004-02-05 at 21:34, Gregory Boyce wrote:
> Run "hdparm /dev/hda" (assuming hda is your hard drive here).
> Are you running a kernel from a major distro, or something custom?

Running Mandrake with 2.4.18.

I don't seem to have hdparm?

[root at lear log]# man hdparm
No manual entry for hdparm
[root at lear log]# which hdparm
which: no hdparm in (...)
[root at lear log]# whereis hdparm
hdparm:
[root at lear log]# ls -l /sbin/hdparm
ls: /sbin/hdparm: No such file or directory
[root at lear log]#

Wouldn't that be a standard part of the typical distro?

Duane