Disable ECC?

[cgallery]

Can ECC be disabled on a hard drive to speed reading of data? I realize the data may be bad, but I will figure that out myself after making an image. It just takes soooo long to copy a drive with lots of ECC errors. If possible, what is the best way to do this? Can I do it through SMART commands? Private mail here is fine if you don't want to tell the world.

[pepe]

Hi,

U can use Read long ATA command.

pepe

[vi]

U can use Read long ATA command.

JFYI: Read Long - uses PIO mode 0, 1 sector at call transfer - most slowest way to read data. Also if you don't use ECC each read can give different data

[hddguru]

U can use Read long ATA command.

JFYI: Read Long - uses PIO mode 0, 1 sector at call transfer - most slowest way to read data. Also if you don't use ECC each read can give different data

Maybe just limit the ECC retries , if you have the power

[cgallery]

JFYI: Read Long - uses PIO mode 0, 1 sector at call transfer - most slowest way to read data. Also if you don't use ECC each read can give different data

Probably why they called it "read long."