The Tuesday 2005-01-25 at 06:16 +0100, Pieter Hulshoff wrote:
Not really, and since I use hdparm for the speed testing those factors should be irrelevant.
I don't know, I have found some diferences between dos / linux partitions.
I've got 5 disks in this machine, 1 of which is set up exactly like this one (same partition sizes), and that one works as advertised. All other disks also act normal; it's just this one partition on this one disk. Even when I test the speed from a rescue setup I get the same numbers.
Did you test for badblocks? You can also run the manufacturer test utility, perhaps it has some problem. sfdisk --list devices will do some testing on the partition limits. I don't have more ideas. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson