[gentoo-user] Do I need hdparm for serial ATA drive?

[Mick]

Newer machines invariably have SATA drives:

           *-disk
                description: ATA Disk
                product: ST9500420ASG
                vendor: Seagate
                physical id: 0
                bus info: s...@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 m2...@0xf1005000 port 0xf1005100 irq 35
ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 abar m2...@0xf1005000 port 0xf1005180 irq 35

Do I need to emerge hdparm for such a drive?
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Regards,
Mick