18 Apr
2007
18 Apr
'07
18:53
Randall R Schulz wrote:
On Wednesday 18 April 2007 09:01, eshsf wrote:
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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.
Maybe he's talking about how fast the disks spin. ;-) -- Use OpenOffice.org <http://www.openoffice.org> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org