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SubjectRe: libata-pata works on ICH4-M

>> So libata has the overhead of using SCSI commands? At least
>> that's what it suggests to the normal user.
>
>libata issues standard ATA commands to disks and CF cards, and ATAPI to
>other devices. The current tree knows how to use LBA28 commands
>opportunistically so its generating basically the same command stream as
>the old IDE layer

That sounds nice, but does hdparm also work with it? The last time I
tried to hdparm a SCSI-style device (usb flash disk, /dev/sda), it did
not work, only sdparm did the job. Will this also be the case with libata?

(BTW, did you mean LBA48?)


Jan Engelhardt
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