Re: hard drive question
> > Which to me shows that it is using ATA100... However:
>
> Don't believe that's quite the case. That is reading what the drive is
> capable of. Per the hdparm man page:
>
> -i Display the identification info that was obtained
> from the drive at boot time, if available.
>
> What does "hdparm /dev/hda" return (that's how the drive is currently
> configured).
burnt:/home/mellofone# hdparm /dev/hda
/dev/hda:
multcount = 0 (off)
I/O support = 0 (default 16-bit)
unmaskirq = 0 (off)
using_dma = 0 (off)
keepsettings = 0 (off)
nowerr = 0 (off)
readonly = 0 (off)
readahead = 8 (on)
geometry = 4865/255/63, sectors = 78165360, start = 0
HDIO_GET_BUSSTATE failed: Input/output error
I'm no expert, but that doesn't look good :)
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