The BIOS in my Dell Inspiron 6400 does not allow me to set the ICH7 SATA controller to AHCI mode. I grabbed a fresh copy of the Linux 2.6.31 kernel source and applied this AHCI quirks patch to it. I...
Read the post →The Intel X25 has once again encouraged me to find something very interesting. I've been reading a bit about the X25’s “endurance management” feature. It sounds as though the drive switches to some sort of slower write strategy if the...
Read the post →Lately I've been wanting to replace the hard drive in my laptop with a nice fast second-generation Intel X25-m. Unfortunately, my disk footprint is just a little too high to comfortably fit on the disk I want to buy, so...
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