Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 4 Aug 1998 00:20:43 +0100 | From | Jamie Lokier <> | Subject | Re: !!Warning!! UDMA and Fujitsu HD |
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On Mon, Aug 03, 1998 at 10:03:36PM +0200, Peter T. Breuer wrote: > It looks like a touch (-X34 -d1) with hdparm that served to boost the > performance of an older DMA disk on older boards is disastrous on a > UDMA disk on newer boards. Some of the reports of UDMA unreliability > may be mistaken ... people seeing errors may have to recheck that they > aren't resetting the disk inappropriately using hdparm.
Please note I am using a VIA VP2/97-based motherboard (the FIC PA-2007), and I _have_ to use -X34 otherwise UDMA locks up my machine within a few days. -X34 or not makes no noticable difference to the results of hdparm -t. No data corruption as far as I am aware.
-- Jamie
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