> -X69 - TRANSFER_MODE - this is a relatively generic setting that I've > been using - you can use 68, 67, 69 or 70 - but I've found that 69 is > best (not a joke, y'all) - here is from the man page:
Oh I see now. -X says DANGEROUS on the hdparm man page. But it might be OK. Since you've worked with a number of drives then I guess it is all right. I went ahead and put it on /dev/hdb and it's a little bit faster: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tmp]# hdparm -Tt /dev/hdb /dev/hdb: Timing buffer-cache reads: 232 MB in 2.00 seconds = 116.00 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 72 MB in 3.06 seconds = 23.53 MB/sec But of course, I'm downloading, transcoding a dvd with dvd:rip, and doing other stuff too. So it's bound to be a little bit low. I'd expect excess of 35-40 on IDE with bus speed 66. Is that not unreasonable? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED] change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. -----------------------------------------------------------------------
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