From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1OHsE5-0002eo-Ce for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 28 May 2010 05:35:21 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AE637E08BD; Fri, 28 May 2010 05:35:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ww0-f53.google.com (mail-ww0-f53.google.com [74.125.82.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 72F5CE08BD for ; Fri, 28 May 2010 05:35:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wwb39 with SMTP id 39so518546wwb.40 for ; Thu, 27 May 2010 22:35:17 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:reply-to:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=8rK9nc8S6iY/Gd798qET7R4r2RbkkI87ZXTtyPe9vzE=; b=AP0JmkJ7sdz17841bg7alCpF2VZ1pIH8gHktHNpjGGPkB9y+ZZMZCZY9LFupyXEoap pZJ3BEe7evFUL8nd8rFlVhFjgKcmTpQWNiuhpT/14rN3RqKnqwdkGKgv7x0ol19B59m3 9P1ju7kO6SbWltBQBe9SwwELC/VtpRXYj99ok= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=Eg2/6GzC5/zsgOt3nNV68aQGJLvxwVPM7IBLpSflrtqnR/Pfl+9cs13mSStHSIhoSD bHshxqvPaIJrdm+Ma6qn6QMHQNYzf6d6V1/ALTOkb7So3LFPw+5JwUdhsaqisGOBybtV /QghZf5czo/1pNXSdfXrQtC4PXf1Se2SloD1g= Received: by 10.227.128.208 with SMTP id l16mr10776580wbs.175.1275024916926; Thu, 27 May 2010 22:35:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from (230.3.169.217.in-addr.arpa [217.169.3.230]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id z33sm13946853wbd.1.2010.05.27.22.35.15 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 27 May 2010 22:35:16 -0700 (PDT) From: Mick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Do I need hdparm for serial ATA drive? Date: Fri, 28 May 2010 06:35:02 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.4 (Linux/2.6.33-gentoo-r2; KDE/4.3.5; x86_64; ; ) References: <20100527172926.6db84a57@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20100527172926.6db84a57@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart3162541.YMAYoOvW8i"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201005280635.15278.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 898e0e9c-8908-40ad-b1e0-c1e069d6cb1c X-Archives-Hash: 888513d58119f63b26db1c0e3c5e80fa --nextPart3162541.YMAYoOvW8i Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thursday 27 May 2010 17:29:26 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 27 May 2010 16:22:11 +0100, Mick wrote: > > Newer machines invariably have SATA drives: > > > > Do I need to emerge hdparm for such a drive? >=20 > % whatis hdparm > hdparm (8) - get/set SATA/ATA device parameters >=20 > SATA is still ATA, using the same basic command set but over a different > wire. Yes, hdparm will work with my drive, but the question is would I have a=20 benefit using it? Other than what Paul said, is there another benefit e.g.= =20 speed wise that I could derive from using hdparm, or is the kernel on its o= wn=20 enough to optimise the performance of the drive?=20 =2D-=20 Regards, Mick --nextPart3162541.YMAYoOvW8i Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAkv/VhMACgkQVTDTR3kpaLb4RwCg3U3Bsvqc8xoGNjQOvlADOO6w lN8An267nrHWXxGzbdpKUaU+BUCqpj/1 =+JWn -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart3162541.YMAYoOvW8i--