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From: Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca>
To: Christoph Pleger <Christoph.Pleger@cs.uni-dortmund.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: PATA-disk named sda
Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2007 13:55:53 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <468E8229.5040602@rtr.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070706113618.1d5e216a.Christoph.Pleger@cs.uni-dortmund.de>

Christoph Pleger wrote:
> Hello,
> 
>> In recent kernels both PATA and SATA (SCSI too) drives are handled by
>> libata  library. It calls all the drives sd* . 
> 
> If so, what about the use of hdparm then? I could not change parameters
> like DMA, MultSectIO and 32-Bit support with hdparm. sdparm also did not
> do that work.

hdparm will still work for most functions,
but setting dma, multsectio, and 32-bit are now solely
the responsibility of the kernel (libata), for now.

Cheers

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-07-06 17:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-06  8:21 PATA-disk named sda Christoph Pleger
2007-07-06  9:13 ` Suren Karapetyan
2007-07-06  9:36   ` Christoph Pleger
2007-07-06  9:58     ` Suren Karapetyan
2007-07-06 17:55     ` Mark Lord [this message]
2007-07-07 18:33       ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-07-06  9:52 ` Alejandro Riveira Fernández
2007-07-06 10:11 ` Uwe Kiewel
2007-07-06 10:18 ` Alan Cox
2007-07-06 12:30   ` Christoph Pleger
2007-07-06 14:40     ` Gabriel C
2007-07-06 15:19     ` Alan Cox
2007-07-07 21:40     ` Rene Herman
     [not found] <fa.VMMtK2yPXE5gkxuIC8MWb1aPBiQ@ifi.uio.no>
     [not found] ` <fa.23lYEA4r0kfTVDJ1AKcxSE4vGKA@ifi.uio.no>
     [not found]   ` <fa.DRDWDh+VAXx84D/6XHgY6h2wB+E@ifi.uio.no>
2007-07-06 14:39     ` Robert Hancock
2007-07-06 17:58       ` Mark Lord
2007-07-06 18:47         ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2007-07-06 18:09       ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz

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