On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 10:22 AM, Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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?
As long as the drivers are in your kernel the drives should work. hdparm is not required to use your disks, but you can use it to change power-saving mode etc. (for example my 2TB drive had very aggressive spindown when power-saving was OFF, but when I use hdparm to turn power-saving ON at the highest level, the crazy spindowns stopped)
