On Monday 12 November 2001 12:17, Niall O Broin wrote:
> P.S. Interactive response on my box suffers when I do such a dd. I've an
> idea it's IDE related. Any more ideas ?
try
hdparm /dev/someidedisk
you should be in 32bit mode and using DMA. This can be set with
hdparm -c 1 -d 1 /dev/someidedisk
there are more advanced settings but they can be dangerous apparently,
Fergal
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