Re: hdparm, multiple mode, and WD Caviar 540

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From: Craig Sanders
Date: Mon, 07 Nov 1994 04:34

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mlord@bnr.ca (Mark Lord) writes:

>In article <1994Nov3.231834.7897@muffin.pronet.com> cas@muffin.pronet.com writes:
> < > < I just got a brand new (only a few weeks old) WD Caviar 540 to
> < > < replace my ancient Maxtor SCSI drive which finally died.  Does
> < > < anyone know whether enabling multimode will benefit me or not?
> <
> < > Yeah, it will.  Just set it to 2 or 4, though, not 16.
> <
> < Why 2 or 4, and not 16?

> Western Digital recommends settings between 4 and 8, inclusively.

Thanks.  Do you know why they recommend those settings?  I'm not
questioning what you're saying, I just like to know the WHY of things
as well as the WHAT - if I know why, then i can figure out the what
myself...


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From: cas@muffin.pronet.com (Craig Sanders)
Subject: Re: hdparm, multiple mode, and WD Caviar 540
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