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Re: [opensuse] Micro pauses, or CPU spikes?
- From: Randall R Schulz <rschulz@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 09:34:49 -0700
- Message-id: <200704180934.49536.rschulz@xxxxxxxxx>
On Wednesday 18 April 2007 09:01, eshsf wrote:
> ...
>
> > You may try to slow down the drive.
> > I got one that was about to fail, but decreasing the speed, using
> > Maxtor utilities, from 66 to 33 helped and it still runs.
>
> Probably, the decreasing speed problem is because the HDD controller
> changed a bad sector into a spare sector. and the spare sector
> possibility don't optimize to seek, I guess.
What would be the relationship between bus transfer rate and seek time?
None that I can think of.
> ...
>
> Thanks,
> eshsf
Randall Schulz
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> ...
>
> > You may try to slow down the drive.
> > I got one that was about to fail, but decreasing the speed, using
> > Maxtor utilities, from 66 to 33 helped and it still runs.
>
> Probably, the decreasing speed problem is because the HDD controller
> changed a bad sector into a spare sector. and the spare sector
> possibility don't optimize to seek, I guess.
What would be the relationship between bus transfer rate and seek time?
None that I can think of.
> ...
>
> Thanks,
> eshsf
Randall Schulz
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