[Bioclusters] Disk optimization for blast

[Ami Klein]

Dear All,
We would like to know if there are parameters in the disks setting that w=
ill=20
accelerate our blast processing.
We have dual CPU Pentium4 machine with 2 IDE Hard disks 120G.
Our O.S. is Suse8.1
the output of the dhparm is:
hdparm -v /dev/hda
/dev/hda:
 multcount    =3D 16 (on)
 IO_support   =3D  1 (32-bit)
 unmaskirq    =3D  0 (off)
 using_dma    =3D  1 (on)
 keepsettings =3D  0 (off)
 readonly     =3D  0 (off)
 readahead    =3D  8 (on)
 geometry     =3D 15017/255/63, sectors =3D 241254720, start =3D 0.

--=20
Thanks,
   Ami.