Randy Kelsoe wrote:
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so, it looks like the big difference is the drive itself. Yours is a Seagate, and mine is a Western Digital.
looks like it is...
Also, from the man pages of hdparm, for the -t and the -T options:
For meaningful results, this operation should be
repeated 2-3 times on an otherwise inactive system (no other
active processes) with at least a couple of megabytes of free
memory.
I know, I know... It stays pretty much there... I'll probably see what that ata1(0): applying Seagate errata fix line does, and try to disable it. Or try to run in UDMA/133
Thanks!
//Andro
