Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 12 Apr 2006 11:55:43 +0200 (MEST) | From | Jan Engelhardt <> | Subject | Re: libata-pata works on ICH4-M |
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>> 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?)
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