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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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