--- "B.Barley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Ok, I finally got around to discovering hdparm, a
> very useful program.
> I got it to boost the speed of my old ata33 drive by
> about 10 Meg/sec.
> Now, I'm trying to get it to speed up my ATA66 WD
> drive and am having
> some serious issues. I was able to increase the
> speed by about 2 meg/sec
> with out turning on DMA. When I try to set the DAM
> bit to on, it locks
I don't know why, but you can not specify the -d flag
alone; you have to do something like this:
hdparm -d1 -X66 /dev/hda
Which is UltraDMA 3, since I tried -X68 (UltraDMA4)
and is not supported.
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Eugenio Diaz, BSEE/BSCE
Linux Engineer
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