Re: PATA-disk named sda

[Mark Lord]

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
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