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On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 12:52 PM, Valmor de Almeida <val.gentoo@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Mark Knecht wrote: |
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> [snip] |
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>> This has been helpful for me. I'm glad Valmor is getting better |
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>> results also. |
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> [snip] |
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> These 4k-sector drives can be problematic when upgrading older |
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> computers. For instance, my laptop BIOS would not boot from the toshiba |
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> drive I mentioned earlier. However when used as an external usb drive, I |
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> could boot gentoo. Since I have been using this drive as backup storage |
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> I did not investigate the reason for the lower speed. I am happy to get |
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> a factor of 8 in speed up now after you did the research :) |
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> Thanks for your postings. |
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Thanks for the info everyone, but do you understand the agony I am now |
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suffering at the fact that all disk in my system (including all parts |
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of my RAID5) are starting on sector 63 and I don't have sufficient |
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free space (or free time) to repartition them? :) I am really curious |
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if there are any gains to be made on my own system... |
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Next time I partition I will definitely pay attention to this, and |
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feel foolish that I didn't pay attention before. Thanks. |
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