linux-kernel - Re: PATA-disk named sda

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Date:	Fri, 06 Jul 2007 13:55:53 -0400
From:	Mark Lord <lkml@....ca>
To:	Christoph Pleger <Christoph.Pleger@...uni-dortmund.de>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: PATA-disk named sda

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.

Cheers
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