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I'm not sure if better error reporting belongs in hdparm or not, since
it's probably just passing on what the kernel says.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/hdparm/> is where hdparm lives, so
that's where to put bug reports or discuss it. The hdparm command has
always been a relatively low level inte
I'm pretty sure that what you report is not only accurate, but makes also a lot
of sense.
Nonetheless, why not making a clearer error message so newbies like me (that
used to use hdparm in the past) won't get scared by cryptic diagnostics?
This bug is marked as "incomplete" and "undecided", makin
Is the /dev/sda device you're referring to an SATA or parallel ATA
device? If it's SATA I'm pretty sure there's never any need to set
32-bit transfer or DMA modes using hdparm. Notice that the hdparm man
page only mentions (E)IDE in the section about the "-c" option. AFAICT
the effect of both the "
~$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:Ubuntu 9.04
Release:9.04
Codename: jaunty~$ cat /proc/version
Linux version 2.6.28-13-generic (bui...@yellow) (gcc version 4.3.3 (Ubuntu
4.3.3-5ubuntu4) ) #45-Ubuntu SMP Tue Jun 30 22:12:12 UTC 200
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I could be mistaken, but I've been firmly under the impression that
setting most performance-related modes like 32-bit transfers and DMA is
not necessary for SATA devices, since the host interface should take
care of tuning to a much greater extent than was possible for legacy
parallel ATA. I have
