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I now have both drives running at ATA100 (I think) via the Promise controller on my Asus A7V.
"hdparam -X69 -d1 -c3 -m16 -u1 /dev/hdx" did the trick to boost my throughput to about 33MB/s. The only problem I am having now is trying to get Linux to NOT probe ide0 and ide1. The "ide0=noprobe" [...]

Ben Harper came into my home sometime over the last few months, and bugged my apartment. He then preceded to monitor my guitar playing sessions with the express reason of stealing from me and claiming my work as his own.
Before now, I was a pretty big Ben Harper fan. I really enjoyed his music, from [...]

I was just talking to a lady downstairs about apartments and home ownership. She was telling me that she put 20% down on her three bedroom home and ended up financing $94,000. Her payments are $750/mo. That is certainly affordable and a $120,000 house in Texas is certainly reasonably nice. Hell, I could even [...]

First I was broke, and owed a lot of people money for services I use currently, and owed a lot of people money for services that are no longer being used. Then I got paid and I had money, but still owed so much to so many people. Now I've spent $700 on paying bills [...]

Is it just me, or does anyone else like playing with the boogery stuff used to attach labels and plastics to paper products (like when you get a credit card in the mail)?

I am falling asleep. I shouldn't have stayed up until 3am with Brad transferring 8GB of data from one machine to another. Either that, or I should have researched hdparm -d1 /dev/hdx [1] ages ago. I need to wake up, and caffeine is not making it any better. I can think of one way to [...]