Re: hdparm and DMA
On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 17:53:44 -0800, Alvin Oga wrote:
> > > === CAUTION
> > > === playing will hdparm options -- you risk losing data on your disks
> >
> > Yeah, I have read that and it worries me.
>
> you're supposed to do hdparm testing on your spare disk that you
> dont care about
> - or at least backup your data and config files
>
I think I will stop for now and maybe look into getting another hard
disk first. I really don't want to get burnt and lose my data and I can
deal with the relatively pathetic performance.
Cheers.
Mark.
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