From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NiFsJ-0003yi-LG for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 18 Feb 2010 23:33:39 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 12BC3E0527; Thu, 18 Feb 2010 23:32:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yx0-f173.google.com (mail-yx0-f173.google.com [209.85.210.173]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D3299E0527 for ; Thu, 18 Feb 2010 23:32:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yxe3 with SMTP id 3so3940742yxe.32 for ; Thu, 18 Feb 2010 15:32:58 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=3rDzrXD4B4OWQOcLwe0xFnHn3iBo+ihN3+F1mgrk6Vk=; b=faVqTmHFQDK+i8431IIr2Gl12EycYR61aU1oiibFMciS8PueGro3StHn0ktjAKLILU IW3BXixul2hAzkAwFNxCTN0d1yxYKhDseZeVy6Cymy+euGdgHbtL+UaKEPIM+oPZl7F5 F8sR88ICgZR/aZSm32aODOIQTLd9IjQWrz7Aw= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=OLht5/FJU1wqOTFO9NPbcjA/xkRfcwqgLO/zqOQ8W7nc+xBAhbT15ZjFc71HFXiZbF j4xQkqMmIW1wg7/mT3nG2OVJ8xUOeOxwWSu168u23qsGi3Eo560sdGHfK5K+y47OcMwi YflFMoOHy3iesnKf+DLoVGW20ouaUzXEJHpmE= Received: by 10.150.47.4 with SMTP id u4mr147037ybu.234.1266535978456; Thu, 18 Feb 2010 15:32:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?192.168.1.1? (adsl-0-92-165.jan.bellsouth.net [65.0.92.165]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 7sm617098ywf.10.2010.02.18.15.32.56 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 18 Feb 2010 15:32:57 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4B7DCE27.7030602@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 17:32:55 -0600 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20100205 Gentoo/2.0.2 SeaMonkey/2.0.2 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: hdparm -d 1 -X 68 ? References: <201002182157.21166.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: ebda69bd-dad5-4adf-9c45-6d79b673b175 X-Archives-Hash: e675b2f9928ea22e00e8ea84352f704b chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties: > On 02/18/2010 01:57 PM, Mick wrote: >> On Thursday 18 February 2010 14:33:38 James wrote: > >>> Should I put the drive into udma4 mode? >>> >>> If so, wouldn't I use: >>> >>> hdparm -d 1 -X 68 /dev/hda >> >> >> According to the hitachi manual (who made this drive for IBM) the >> DJNA-3XXXXX >> series has a Ultra ATA Mode 2 (33.3 MB per second) capability. So >> the kernel >> is not lying in this case and you can trust hdparm in what it shows. I >> suggest you leave alone. > > Shouldn't the drive just refuse any command that it can't do? > I would think it would but since the drive can't run at that setting, why do it? The drive can't most likely from hardware so why take the chance of messing something up? Dale :-) :-)