Due to problems with my laptop freezing
when booting into various flavours of linux.
i.e Ubuntu, xubuntu, Mint (all of these I have
tried, but the same freezing happens)
Also I have tried two new Harddrives and still it freezes
on occasions, either on bootup or randomly when in the OS.

My hard drive is a "Western Digital Scorpio Blue 80GB EIDE - WD800BEVE",
I noticed that when reading up about HDPARM there is an option -m that
I can use to maybe help.

I would like to have the following hdparm command
run when my system boots up, and have added the following
hdparm line to the bottom of the /etc/hdparm.conf file...

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but it when I do a hdparm -i /dev/sda from Terminal in "Linux Mint" it still shows MultiSect=16 not =4

I can set it from Terminal using:

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and it will switch MultiSect=4

Therefore I must be doing something wrong, but I can not work out what,
due to my limited experience in with linux.

Could someone confirm which file I should edit to put the above hdparm
command into, and let me know if there is something I may be doing
wrong.

Thanks.

I don't know how to do what your looking for but...

If different OS freeze, if different hard drives freeze...

I would be checking my video card, RAM and motherboard.

In that order, just swap them out with another system or try to borrow some from a friend or a local shop that may have them spare for testing.

Just a thought,
Derry

Had a thought - if you place your command in /etc/rc.local, it should run at the end of the boot process. This obviously won't help if the system hangs on boot.