On Wed, 18 Apr 2007 14:53:40 -0400 James Knott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Randall R Schulz wrote: > > On Wednesday 18 April 2007 09:01, eshsf wrote: > > > >> ... > >> > >> > >>> You may try to slow down the drive. > >>> I got one that was about to fail, but decreasing the speed, using > >>> Maxtor utilities, from 66 to 33 helped and it still runs. > >>> > >> Probably, the decreasing speed problem is because the HDD controller > >> changed a bad sector into a spare sector. and the spare sector > >> possibility don't optimize to seek, I guess. > >> > > > > What would be the relationship between bus transfer rate and seek time? > > None that I can think of. > > > > > Maybe he's talking about how fast the disks spin. ;-) I did misread Rajko's mail. never mind. eshsf -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
