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Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2007 20:33:41 +0200 (CEST)
From: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...putergmbh.de>
To: Mark Lord <lkml@....ca>
cc: Christoph Pleger <Christoph.Pleger@...uni-dortmund.de>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: PATA-disk named sda
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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