On 4/13/89, <b class="gmail_sendername">R. G. Newbury</b> <<a href="mailto:newbury@mandamus.org">newbury@mandamus.org</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>Both drives are on the same 80 conductor cable IIRC and the problem<br>drive has no OS, so 'swapping' them would be difficult to implement</blockquote></div><br>
Actually, it shouldn't be hard at all. Download and burn yourself
a knoppix CD. Boot your desktop from the knoppix disk and run
your hdparm tests. Shut down, swap the drives, boot back into
knoppix and run your hdparm tests again.<br>
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HTH,<br>
Brad Benson<br>
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