On Tue, 31 Aug 1999, Jair-Rohm wrote:
>The man page for 'hdparm' mentions something about use of the '-m' option
>potentially resulting in "...massive filesystem corruption." This of course
>if your EIDE drive "lies" about its support for multiple mode.
>
>Anyone have any experience with this?
To get a good answer to this question, you'll have to identify exactly which
type(s) of disk hardware you have. users with well-behaved, truth-telling
hardware will have had good experiences, whereas users with bad, dishonest
hardware will have had bad experiences.
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