Phil, >Yavuz AKYAZICI said: > >>Hi Bjorn, > >>Here is how it works. You can decrease the noise of your drives. >>However, It decreases your performance as well. If you increase >>your performance it also increases noise. I am very happy with >>the way it is now. It is very quiet and I did not even come close to >>a bottleneck in performance. You should be able to play 48 or >>even 64 tracks (or even more) with these drives without the need >>of an adjustment. >> >>Regards >>Yavuz AKYAZICI >Phil replied: >Well I hate to put the dampers on this but running this patch to this >drive definately degrades performance. What it actually does is >reduce the acceleration of the actuator between seeks, thus >reducing performance. I used the ibmftool and set the 1st level noise reduction as enabled. Running a "dskbench" test shows only a minimal degration in drive performance, I'm talking 2% or less. The drive is now dead silent which I prefer. The real question here is, why am I up reading the LUG at 4:00AM... sigh. :-) howard

on 1/2/01 10:08 PM, Howard Wooten at hwooten@... wrote: > > I used the ibmftool and set the 1st level noise reduction as enabled. > > Running a "dskbench" test shows only a minimal degration in drive > performance, I'm talking 2% or less. The drive is now dead silent which > I prefer. Howard, Sounds good but what is it and where do you get it. Andris