From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1764401AbXGFR4J (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Jul 2007 13:56:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1761795AbXGFRz4 (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Jul 2007 13:55:56 -0400 Received: from rtr.ca ([64.26.128.89]:4043 "EHLO mail.rtr.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757809AbXGFRzz (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Jul 2007 13:55:55 -0400 Message-ID: <468E8229.5040602@rtr.ca> Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2007 13:55:53 -0400 From: Mark Lord User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.4 (X11/20070604) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Christoph Pleger Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: PATA-disk named sda References: <20070706102132.14fbc600.Christoph.Pleger@cs.uni-dortmund.de> <200707061413.53182.surenkarapetyan@gmail.com> <20070706113618.1d5e216a.Christoph.Pleger@cs.uni-dortmund.de> In-Reply-To: <20070706113618.1d5e216a.Christoph.Pleger@cs.uni-dortmund.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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