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From: Chris Walters <cjw2004d@×××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] SATA II Hard Drive problems - revisited...
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 21:54:20
Message-Id: 456DFF79.1050202@comcast.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] SATA II Hard Drive problems - revisited... by James
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4 James wrote:
5 > Chris Walters <cjw2004d <at> comcast.net> writes:
6 >
7 >> I thought I'd give an update on my hard drive situation. By using
8 >> "hdparm -I", rather than "hdparm -i", I was able to find out that my
9 >> hard drive is operating in UDMA6 mode in Gentoo.
10 >
11 >> Thanks to all who tried to help.
12 >
13 > Hello Chris,
14 >
15 > This is a 'long shot' in the dark, cause I have not read anything about
16 > your problem, but, do make sure you check for any 'pc bios' settings.
17 > Linux is suppose to ignore bios settings and do it's own thing, but,
18 > at least on video ram, I've had to adjust the factory defaults to get
19 > max video ram on some systems. I think there are a few bugs floating
20 > about with how the linux kernel and the default bios interact.
21 >
22 >
23 > just a wag (wild ass guess)
24 >
25 >
26 > James
27
28 Hello James,
29
30 Well, since this this thing is nearly brand new, and UDMA worked in
31 Windows until some time after I installed Gentoo (I don't think Gentoo
32 had anything to do with it), I doubted it was the BIOS - I checked
33 anyway. Everything that should be enabled is set correctly.
34
35 I am certain that it is a Windows problem - probably from some software
36 I installed. Anyway, thanks for the advice.
37
38 Regards,
39 Chris
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