On Tuesday 08 January 2008, Wayn0 wrote: > William Kenworthy wrote: > > If you have sata drives, and they are showing up as hdx, you have > > something seriously misconfigured. They should be showing as sdx. > > > > Deselect everything in ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL and select the relevant boxes > > in serial ATA. Dont forget fstab will need redoing to match. > > > > I always thought that if you select both, serial ata should take > > precedence, and in some cases you can access via both, but I have at > > least one machine that will only work as sata with all the older ata > > stuff deselected. > > > > BillK > > Cheers, > > This is why it's doing my head in. I have a desktop with both sata pata > drives in with a very similar kernel config and it work as expected :-/ > > I will try removing all the ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL stuff tonight, and report > back later.
For sata drives use this, not hdparm:
# eix -l sdparm
* sys-apps/sdparm
Available versions:
0.97
0.98
~ 0.99
1.00
1.01
~ 1.02
Homepage: http://sg.torque.net/sg/sdparm.html
Description: Utility to output and modify parameters on a SCSI
device, like hdparm
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Regards,
Mick
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