Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 06 Jul 2007 13:55:53 -0400 | From | Mark Lord <> | Subject | Re: PATA-disk named sda |
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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.
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