linux-kernel - Re: hdparm for lib

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Message-ID: <45C8BF9A.2@tmr.com>
Date:	Tue, 06 Feb 2007 12:49:14 -0500
From:	Bill Davidsen <davidsen@....com>
To:	Mark Lord <lkml@....ca>
CC:	Robert Hancock <hancockr@...w.ca>,
	Patrick Ale <patrick.ale@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: hdparm for lib_pata

Mark Lord wrote:
> Robert Hancock wrote:
>> ..
>> Only some of the hdparm functionality is supported in libata,
> 
> That's not true.  MOST hdparm functionality is supported in libata.
> Only a very few things are not supported, including -d and -X,
> for reasons already pointed out.
> 
> Nearly everything else works.
> 
Agreed, I've already had problems typing faster than I think, twice, as 
as I hit ENTER saying "wait, that's a SCSI device" and then "wow, it 
worked anyway!" Nice job on the whole, but setting transfer modes is 
desirable, still.

-- 
Bill Davidsen <davidsen@....com>
   "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from
the machinations of the wicked."  - from Slashdot
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