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From: "Jesús Guerrero" <i92guboj@×××××.es>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] hdparm -d 1 -X 68 ?
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 14:57:18
Message-Id: 20100218155702.3a3c1598.i92guboj@terra.es
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] hdparm -d 1 -X 68 ? by James
1 On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 14:33:38 +0000 (UTC)
2 James <wireless@×××××××××××.com> wrote:
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4 > UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 *udma2 udma3 udma4
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6 > Should I put the drive into udma4 mode?
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8 > If so, wouldn't I use:
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10 > hdparm -d 1 -X 68 /dev/hda
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12 Sincerely, I haven't seen the need of manually tuning this with hdparm
13 for ages. The kernel is pretty good these days at that, and the drive
14 is probably already working at its max speed.
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16 Looking at the specs and age of that model, there's nothing else you
17 can get from this drive.
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23 Jesús Guerrero <i92guboj@×××××.es>

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