From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932313AbVJQUuj (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Oct 2005 16:50:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932317AbVJQUuj (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Oct 2005 16:50:39 -0400 Received: from cpu1185.adsl.bellglobal.com ([207.236.110.166]:14290 "EHLO mail.rtr.ca") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932313AbVJQUui (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Oct 2005 16:50:38 -0400 Message-ID: <43540E9D.4090906@rtr.ca> Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 16:50:37 -0400 From: Mark Lord User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050923 Debian/1.7.12-0ubuntu05.04 X-Accept-Language: en, en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Michal Piotrowski Cc: "J.A. Magallon" , "Linux-Kernel," Subject: Re: hdparm almost burned my SATA disk References: <20051016010153.768d29d5@werewolf.able.es> <20051016010459.0c9a2beb@werewolf.able.es> <6bffcb0e0510151705l67725fd3t@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <6bffcb0e0510151705l67725fd3t@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Michal Piotrowski wrote: > > debian:/home/michal# hdparm -tT /dev/sda > > /dev/sda: > Timing cached reads: 3652 MB in 2.00 seconds = 1823.54 MB/sec > HDIO_DRIVE_CMD(null) (wait for flush complete) failed: Inappropriate > ioctl for device > Timing buffered disk reads: 174 MB in 3.01 seconds = 57.72 MB/sec > HDIO_DRIVE_CMD(null) (wait for flush complete) failed: Inappropriate > ioctl for device > debian:/home/michal# hdparm -V > hdparm v6.1 > debian:/home/michal# hdparm -I /dev/sda > > /dev/sda: > HDIO_DRIVE_CMD(identify) failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device > Harmless. 100% harmless. The "Inappropriate ioctl for device" messages are due to the incomplete implementation of HDIO_DRIVE_CMD in libata. No big deal. Once the passthru patches finally get released for real, I'll update hdparm to not use the missing ioctl. Cheers