Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3397 mails)

[Randall R Schulz <rschulz@xxxxxxxxx>]

Matt,

On Wednesday 06 April 2005 09:26, Matt Gibson wrote:
> ...
>
> Just a quick tip:  If you're ever in that situation again, you can
> download a utility from Seagate that lets you tell the drive to run
> at a different maximum speed.  Just runs off a bootable DOS floppy
> and lets you change some of the drive's parameters which are stored
> in non-volatile RAM somewhere, so you only have to do it once and it
> remembers the setting until you change it back.
>
> See the "Ultra ATA Mode Switching Utility" description here:
>
> http://www.seagate.com/support/disc/utils.html

It happens to be one of the many vendor-specific utilities included on 
the Ultimate Boot CD: <http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/>


> Cheers,
>
> Matt


Randall Schulz