Nando wrote: > > I was pleasantly surprised when I saw a hdparm module as part of > grub2. So I tried the -X > parameter as is provided by the linux command line finding it > isn't implemented. eg: > > # hdparm -X udma5 /dev/sda > > Can the development team consider adding this feature? A number of > ppl's bios is incorrectly setting interfaces to UDMA2/MDMA2, > particularly on pata optical drive interfaces which users are using a > 2.5" HDDs instead via an optical bay caddy. The workaround being to > wait for a (slow) Linux/Windows boot and then typing the above > commandline. Doing this at the grub2 bootloader level being more > preferable. >
OK, added to my local TODO list :-) Please note that GRUB hdparm does only work in conjunction with the ata+ata_pthru modules because a PC BIOS does not provide any ATA pass-through functionality. A 'hdparm -X' would only help if the actual boot works with ata.mod instead of biosdisk.mod. -- Regards, Christian Franke _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
