On Thu, 29 May 2003 09:16:39 +0100 "Keith Watson" keith.watson@kewill.com wrote:

Had a play with hdparm last night and my experience was the same as Ian. In fact the settings seemed to be at optimum by default, everything I tried just slowed things down.

I didn't find anything that speeded up the transfer rate as reported by hdparm -t - there was as much variation between any two tests with the same settings as between different settings.