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From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: hdparm -d 1 -X 68 ?
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 23:33:39
Message-Id: 4B7DCE27.7030602@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: hdparm -d 1 -X 68 ? by walt
1 chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties:
2 > On 02/18/2010 01:57 PM, Mick wrote:
3 >> On Thursday 18 February 2010 14:33:38 James wrote:
4 >
5 >>> Should I put the drive into udma4 mode?
6 >>>
7 >>> If so, wouldn't I use:
8 >>>
9 >>> hdparm -d 1 -X 68 /dev/hda
10 >>
11 >>
12 >> According to the hitachi manual (who made this drive for IBM) the
13 >> DJNA-3XXXXX
14 >> series has a Ultra ATA Mode 2 (33.3 MB per second) capability. So
15 >> the kernel
16 >> is not lying in this case and you can trust hdparm in what it shows. I
17 >> suggest you leave alone.
18 >
19 > Shouldn't the drive just refuse any command that it can't do?
20 >
21
22 I would think it would but since the drive can't run at that setting,
23 why do it? The drive can't most likely from hardware so why take the
24 chance of messing something up?
25
26 Dale
27
28 :-) :-)