On Sun, Nov 27, 2005 at 06:25:02PM -0200, Bruno Buys wrote: > Bill Marcum wrote: > > You might also want to try enabling ultradma, as well. Hdparm says messing with > that is dangerous, but, honestly, I never saw any kind of harm doing hdparm -X > etc /dev/some-drive. If not possible, hdparm outputs an error, that's all. > Check 'hdparm --help' for the -X (case) option. This shall bring you to the > best possible transfer speed for the drive. Some older drives have firmware that claim to support a particular (U)DMA mode, but don't properly implement it. Actually enabling support for that mode can have catastrophic consequences. Though, as you point out, that is mostly not a problem, especially in modern drives. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto
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