Hi, >> Is LBA turned on?
> How do you turn LBA on? I have "lba32" (without the quotes) in > lilo.conf if thats what you mean. Sridhar meant the setting in the BIOS. Try changing it from AUTO to LBA. >> In addition, the IBM Feature Tool >> can turn off Automatic Acoustic Management (AAM) on the Seagate drive, >> giving you better drive performance (hdparm can do this as well, but I'm >> not sure if that setting remains after a reboot) . > I'll check that out. Is the drive still so quiet when AAM is turned off? Almost. That's the point of Acoustic management - to make it quiter at the expense of some performance. AFAIK the drive seeks will be a bit louder. -- HTH Roman
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