Linux On My Samsung

Just for the sake of anyone else with an N210/N220 who might look at this.,, I've now tried a Western Digital WD2500BEVT in the same netbook and it responds perfectly to hdparm commands. Must be some quirk of the Samsung HM250 drive that ships with the netbook.

Cheers,
Andrew

Yes, I'm going to try swapping the Samsung HDD for a Western Digital to see if the 'problem' goes away. Mind you, I'm not even sure it's a problem at all. Sometimes too much information is a bad thing

fdisk -l /dev/sda Disk /dev/sda: 250.1 GB, 250059350016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x9d97ba08 Device Boot ...

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