From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: James Courtier-Dutton Subject: Better support for Serial ATA Hard Discs. Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 17:00:15 +0100 Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <4120DA0F.4060506@superbug.demon.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from anchor-post-36.mail.demon.net ([194.217.242.86]:10502 "EHLO anchor-post-37.mail.demon.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267791AbUHPQAU (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Aug 2004 12:00:20 -0400 Received: from superbug.demon.co.uk ([80.176.146.252] helo=[192.168.1.10]) by anchor-post-37.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 1BwjuC-0004eg-0b for linux-ide@vger.kernel.org; Mon, 16 Aug 2004 16:00:16 +0000 List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org I have a SATA HD, and my motherboard can talk to it using PATA or SATA. Using PATA, the SATA HD appears to linux as an IDE HD. So I can use hdparm on it, and therefore set sleep/power down times. e.g. hdparm -S60 /dev/hda Using SATA, the SATA HD appears to linux as a SCSI HD. I can use hdparm on it, but it is limited. e.g. hdparm -S60 /dev/sda <- Will not work. I am using linux kernel 2.6.8. Should I be using some different tool for setting sleep/power down times when using the SATA HD in SATA mode? I would also like to get hddtemp to work with SATA HDs as well. Can anyone advise me on what to do next? James