Here's the hdparm output. ------------------------- # hdparm /dev/sda2 /dev/sda2: IO_support = 0 (default 16-bit) HDIO_GET_UNMASKINTR failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device HDIO_GET_DMA failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device HDIO_GET_KEEPSETTINGS failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device readonly = 0 (off) readahead = 256 (on) geometry = 30401/255/63, sectors = 248979225600, start = 2072385 ------------------------- # hdparm -i /dev/sda2 /dev/sda2: Model=HDT722525DLA380 V44O, FwRev=V44O, SerialNo= Config={ } RawCHS=30401/255/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=0 BuffType=unknown, BuffSize=0kB, MaxMultSect=0 (maybe): CurCHS=30401/255/63, CurSects=0, LBA=no IORDY=no PIO modes: pio0 AdvancedPM=no * signifies the current active mode ------------------------- Claus On Friday 10 June 2005 14:42, Cristian Rodriguez wrote:

2005/6/10, Claus Olesen <colesen@pacbell.net>:

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In my SuSE 9.3 box I have a

- Hitachi T7K250 SATAII harddrive - Samsung SP1614C SATA150 harddrive - ASUS A7N8X motherboard (with Silicon Image 3112A bios version 4.2.27)

The problem is that the Hitachi drive is 4 times slower to write to than the Samsung drive - leaving the Hitachi drive unusable for capture of video from my camcorder because of too many dropped frames.

Anyone know of a fix for this? Or another good place to post the problem?

please send us the output of

root#hdparm /dev/xxx root#hdparm -i /dev/xxx

where xxx is the device name of your hitachi drive.