On 8/20/05, Atte Andr? Jensen <atte.jensen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Noah Roberts wrote: > > > Using an external hard drive seems to help some. > > Did you look at hdparm, esp for the internal drive? No, not yet. I have used Linux for a long time and never had to deal with that. I frankly don't know anything about getting the best out of an HD with that program. I always let Linux do it since it seemed to do pretty good with it.