From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz Subject: Re: libata and PATA devices Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 17:57:08 +0200 Message-ID: <58cb370e050811085747380256@mail.gmail.com> References: <200508071949.03782.inform@tiker.net> <20050808030239.GA27502@havoc.gtf.org> <1123495856.22328.62.camel@localhost.localdomain> <42F8B41C.4040408@rtr.ca> <42FACCA8.6050408@pobox.com> <1123753051.4226.22.camel@localhost.localdomain> <58cb370e05081103031cb9ccdb@mail.gmail.com> <1123755440.4226.28.camel@localhost.localdomain> <58cb370e050811032658a2b61e@mail.gmail.com> <1123774157.4422.3.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Return-path: Received: from nproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.182.200]:6600 "EHLO nproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932226AbVHKP5L convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Aug 2005 11:57:11 -0400 Received: by nproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id l37so95420nfc for ; Thu, 11 Aug 2005 08:57:08 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <1123774157.4422.3.camel@localhost.localdomain> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Erik Slagter Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org On 8/11/05, Erik Slagter wrote: > On Thu, 2005-08-11 at 12:26 +0200, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > > > As ICH6M features both PATA and SATA connections, I don't see why they'd > > > use a PATA bridge... The DVD drives use PATA anyway, btw. > > > > AFAIR ICH6M has only one PATA port and putting both HDD and DVD drive > > on the same PATA port would sacrifice performance (because only one PATA > > device can be used at a time). > > That's duff. The PATA harddisk that is used in my laptop, also comes in > a SATA version... You didn't even tell the vendor/model of the HDD hdparm -I /dev/hda output (with your patch applied) would be useful.