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 1OHeue-0000Mg-Ms for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 27 May 2010 15:22:24 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 37455E09D6; Thu, 27 May 2010 15:22:12 +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 EDD7BE09D6 for ; Thu, 27 May 2010 15:22:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wwb39 with SMTP id 39so47929wwb.40 for ; Thu, 27 May 2010 08:22:11 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:date:message-id :subject:from:to:content-type; bh=lO5HqQayY7Uu4tIOQ5QCBODFgwYMWZR6i3eOuYb5IF0=; b=iaU5v5fRBdJc9jMGnASYmxSsCCF/9zHLJZ1tWj2/7eKjUFuhRIqCZnSIabsDrnDoJp uiTwpCrDK1/DSOik5+G5qzgsGhOCGV+Ly5FVjjoDjmO9q47EmmeVviWas/Tsf3gkgdGd QFhiq/xTg6MQlvfzC33zgH5k3vNejSAdEM1XI= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; b=DXyAQC0JI3u/u8j2d11cL5gSLRd5mqsKeXAgbCuMKN9Szw5i+bZz5TLeIlya/8W/kT b02JmHbdccPTHgB8+s1epHsnACb47Y39vbQVQSLkDV6Q6wTZ0mpIRpXC2dd3jfW3A4J1 ay0DNPZIk/Z35tyUL/4R4tJYDKAB+gZp1+eYM= 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 Received: by 10.216.90.13 with SMTP id d13mr764676wef.18.1274973731230; Thu, 27 May 2010 08:22:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.216.160.132 with HTTP; Thu, 27 May 2010 08:22:11 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 16:22:11 +0100 Message-ID: Subject: [gentoo-user] Do I need hdparm for serial ATA drive? From: Mick To: gentoo-user Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Archives-Salt: 2e512368-7683-4c5f-a458-2086c68f4381 X-Archives-Hash: 22ecc230ec5550fa9cbeabf951c3e126 Newer machines invariably have SATA drives: *-disk description: ATA Disk product: ST9500420ASG vendor: Seagate physical id: 0 bus info: scsi@0:0.0.0 logical name: /dev/sda version: 0004 serial: 5VJ377P2 size: 465GiB (500GB) capabilities: partitioned partitioned:dos configuration: ansiversion=5 signature=cf5ac2f0 >From dmesg: ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 abar m2048@0xf1005000 port 0xf1005100 irq 35 ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 abar m2048@0xf1005000 port 0xf1005180 irq 35 Do I need to emerge hdparm for such a drive? -- Regards, Mick