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I just bought a new hard drive, the salesperson told me that it has 8MB buffer, etc. Well I did not see the hard drive being labeled that way, however, the sales man said don't worry,if it is not what I teling you, just bring it back, and you get your money back. I came home Installed the new HD, run hdparm -i /dev/hda, and bingo! I have all the info about my new hard drive, including the buffer size:
Really don't know how to check these information in Windows, let's say XP.
The whole idea of getting this new hard drive is because I am on the road to switch to Linux for ever and ever! As I read somewhere on the net, Linux is fun!
That's the SATA version, right? I just got the same drive in IDE wd800jb and it's nice, but nowhere near as fast on IDE on my old box I should have got a SATA card and the SATA drive and aimed for the future I suppose...
Originally posted by amosf That's the SATA version, right? I just got the same drive in IDE wd800jb and it's nice, but nowhere near as fast on IDE on my old box I should have got a SATA card and the SATA drive and aimed for the future I suppose...
Yeap! We got the same hard drive. So far I am am a happy camper.
Yep it's nice, even on my slow old box... Tho I forgot to install the VIA DMA module in the last kernel compile and it was really slow for a bit until I realised. Now with dma it's running nice. I didn't even really look what I was getting. I just needed an 80 gig drive and quick and that was what the guy had cheap (tho the seagate was a bit cheaper maybe but went for the WD). Didn't really know anything about the buffer or speed til I started playing with it...
I do like linux and the info. I ran hdparm and realized I wasn't getting dma and couldn't switch it on... So that let me track down the screw up with the kernel compile...
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