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From: walt <w41ter@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: hdparm -d 1 -X 68 ?
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 14:53:58 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <hlkge1$m69$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201002182157.21166.michaelkintzios@gmail.com>

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?




  reply	other threads:[~2010-02-18 22:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-02-18 14:33 [gentoo-user] hdparm -d 1 -X 68 ? James
2010-02-18 14:53 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2010-02-18 14:57 ` Jesús Guerrero
2010-02-18 15:17   ` [gentoo-user] " James
2010-02-18 21:57 ` [gentoo-user] " Mick
2010-02-18 22:53   ` walt [this message]
2010-02-18 23:12     ` [gentoo-user] " Volker Armin Hemmann
2010-02-18 23:32     ` Dale

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