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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