On Wed, 23 May 2001, Shridhar Daithankar wrote:

 |# /sbin/hdparm -d1 -c1 -m16 /dev/hda
 |# /sbin/hdparm -tT /dev/hda

from the hdparm man page...
--snip--
Some drives claim to support multiple mode, but lose data at some
settings.  Under rare circumstances, such failures can result in massive
filesystem corruption.
--snip--

I wouldn't advice someone to turn that option on.... unless he knows what
he's doing.... enable DMA and 32bit IO is enough to get the mp3z to stop
skipping.

Kingsly



                .:: Kingsly John                ICQ 14787510 ::.
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            .:: Linux 2.4.3 #10 Mon Apr 23 22:43:11 IST 2001 i686 ::.
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           `:. Posted to the list on Wed May 23 16:57:49 IST 2001 .:'


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