--- bobby dowling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I tried hdparm -d1 -X66 /dev/hdX and I got a
> significant reduction in
> performance:
>
> Maxtor: 28mb/sec to 15 mb/sec
> WD: 22mb/sec to 20 mb/sec
>
> So, I guess I will just leave the dma setting off
> (???).
What that means is that probably your drive was
already using UDMA4 (-X68), and you turned it down to
UDMA2 (-X66).
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