On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 01:29:39PM +0100, David Baron wrote: > My disk always come up with 16-bit access. > > Even after setting to 32-bit and also setting retain settings on reset, no > avail! > > How to fix? Edit /etc/hdparm.conf file. It's the file that hdparm script, which is in /etc/init.d, read from to configure your hdd status. If you want to know more about it, see /etc/init.d/hdparm script. Thanks.