fast wd2010 (was Re: While I have the case open...)

[David B. Thomas]

thad at public.BTR.COM (Thaddeus P. Floryan) writes:

>There was a
>thread last year about altering the step rate with a WD2010 on the 3B1 but I
>don't recall if any conclusive evidence appeared either way.

I tried doing that (using step rate 14 instead of 0), and I was astonished
at just how fast the disk worked.  Then the HDERRs started rolling in --
big time.  I restored the stock 0 step rate and everything's been 100%
reliable ever since.

						little david
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