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From: Dave Mielke <dave@mielke.cc>
To: linux-sound@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: hdparm...
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 12:08:22 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-linux-sound-93610087916960@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-linux-sound-93608992629994@msgid-missing>

On Tue, 31 Aug 1999, Jair-Rohm wrote:
>The man page for 'hdparm' mentions something about use of the '-m' option
>potentially resulting in "...massive filesystem corruption." This of course
>if your EIDE drive "lies" about its support for multiple mode.
>
>Anyone have any experience with this?

To get a good answer to this question, you'll have to identify exactly which
type(s) of disk hardware you have. users with well-behaved, truth-telling
hardware will have had good experiences, whereas users with bad, dishonest
hardware will have had bad experiences.

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      parent reply	other threads:[~1999-08-31 12:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-08-31  8:58 hdparm Jair-Rohm
1999-08-31  9:53 ` hdparm Benno Senoner
1999-08-31 12:08 ` Dave Mielke [this message]

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