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 :)



	Jan
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