On 10 Aug 2003 22:12:14 +1000, Stephen Kuhn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-08-10 at 21:38, Anarky wrote: > > hi everybody ... me new ... I just had a very embarassing moment > > today. A friend came by with his hdd .. and I was copying about 1Gb of > > data from one hdd to another. My linux preaching was going pretty well > > .. and he was pretty much willing to give it a try too ... > <WHACK> > > ...So, with that said, here are some settings that I've found work about > right for every drive I slap into a system here (for basically the same > thing): > > hdparm -X69 -d1 -u1 -c3 -m16 -A1 -W1 /dev/hdX > > (where X is the letter of the device) And make sure you put the second drive on the other IDE channel. Miark
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