From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1N7DNq-0005zx-BA for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Nov 2009 14:25:06 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1N7DNo-0005ze-4e for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Nov 2009 14:25:04 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1N7DNj-0005zA-LL for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Nov 2009 14:25:03 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=59004 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1N7DNj-0005z7-9j for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Nov 2009 14:24:59 -0500 Received: from mailout01.t-online.de ([194.25.134.80]:34017) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1N7DNi-00023u-TS for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Nov 2009 14:24:59 -0500 Received: from fwd10.aul.t-online.de by mailout01.t-online.de with smtp id 1N7BGk-0006vQ-02; Sun, 08 Nov 2009 18:09:38 +0100 Received: from [10.3.2.2] (ZYt9uuZTgh7iDBQNnBoP4hiozulkzQIuMhKHbAf4BipBaBK44qdgGKAEk+n8pP5gOz@[217.235.176.216]) by fwd10.aul.t-online.de with esmtp id 1N7BGf-0Iy6Ay0; Sun, 8 Nov 2009 18:09:33 +0100 Message-ID: <4AF6FB4D.8030501@t-online.de> Date: Sun, 08 Nov 2009 18:09:33 +0100 From: Christian Franke User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.23) Gecko/20090825 SeaMonkey/1.1.18 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: The development of GNU GRUB References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ID: ZYt9uuZTgh7iDBQNnBoP4hiozulkzQIuMhKHbAf4BipBaBK44qdgGKAEk+n8pP5gOz X-TOI-MSGID: f5e3e1f4-ee85-490b-9187-6dd70465a0b8 X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) Subject: Re: hdparm documentation X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GNU GRUB List-Id: The development of GNU GRUB List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 08 Nov 2009 19:25:04 -0000 Pedro A ARANDA wrote: > I'm trying to make the hdparm module run on my HP Mini 110. I have had > no luck, > neither in doing so or finding documentation which could help me doing > so. If I get > the right pointer and I make it run on my box, I'd be willing to post > a HOWTO, to > make things easier to other people. > > I'm currently running Ubuntu 2009.10 with grub2. > > When I > > set debug=ata > insmod ata > > I actually get my drive listed as (ata0,0) but when I then > try > > insmod hdparm > hdparm -B 255 (ata0,0) > > grub keeps telling me that the drive (hd0) is not known... > After 'insmod ata', loading of further modules typically fails because the drive in the 'prefix' variable is no longer valid. The following works for me: # Load needed modules first insmod hdparm # Switch to ATA driver and load ATA pass-through support # (this invalidates prefix) insmod ata_pthru # Turn APM off hdparm -B 255 (ata0) -- Regards, Christian Franke