Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 7 Jul 2007 20:33:41 +0200 (CEST) | From | Jan Engelhardt <> | Subject | Re: PATA-disk named sda |
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On Jul 6 2007 13:55, Mark Lord wrote: > Christoph Pleger wrote: >> Hello, >> >> > In recent kernels both PATA and SATA (SCSI too) drives are handled by >> > libata library. It calls all the drives sd* . >> >> If so, what about the use of hdparm then? I could not change parameters >> like DMA, MultSectIO and 32-Bit support with hdparm. sdparm also did not >> do that work. > > hdparm will still work for most functions, > but setting dma, multsectio, and 32-bit are now solely > the responsibility of the kernel (libata), for now.
Yeah. `smartctl -d ata -a /dev/sda` is also one to work :)
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