From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dave Mielke Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 12:08:22 +0000 Subject: Re: hdparm... Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-sound@vger.kernel.org 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. -- Dave Mielke | 856 Grenon Avenue | I believe that the Bible is the Phone: 1-613-726-0014 | Ottawa, Ontario | Word of God. Please contact me EMail: dave@mielke.cc | Canada K2B 6G3 | if you're concerned about Hell.