Re: Does Linux support powering down SATA drives?

asmith
2005-11-20T07:23:12Z

I would agree with your view on IDE becoming obsolete on hard drives, but I as
yet, am not aware of any CD/DVD drives with a SATA interface.

On Sat, 19 Nov 2005, Alistair John Strachan wrote:

> On Saturday 19 November 2005 21:20, Marc Perkel wrote:
> [snip]
>>
>> SATA isn't really "new" any more. I personally consider IDE to be
>> obsolete. Seems to me that Linux should fully support SATA to the same
>> level as IDE drives. And I'm saying that as someone who doesn't have to
>> actually code it. But I will leave messages of praise and thanks in this
>> mailing list if you all catch up.
>
> As Alan mentions in another thread, what is needed is true hotplug support,
> which is difficult with some controllers for which we have poor (or no)
> documentation. I wouldn't hold your breath.
>
> As for pass-thru standby/sleep commands, as long as the pass-thru patch got
> into mainline, try a very recent version of hdparm which should understand
> sending the ATA commands over SCSI (libata).
>
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