Hello, I have a system with a HD in question and if I should rn 'hdparm' or not on this system.
Dmegs shows: ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx ATIIXP: IDE controller (0x1002:0x4376 rev 0x00) at PCI slot 0000:00:14.1 ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:14.1[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16 ATIIXP: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later ide0: BM-DMA at 0xe400-0xe407, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio ATIIXP: simplex device: DMA disabled ide1: ATIIXP Bus-Master DMA disabled (BIOS) Probing IDE interface ide0... hdb: _NEC DVD_RW ND-3550A, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive hda: HL-DT-ST RW/DVD GCC-4482B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive hda: host max PIO4 wanted PIO255(auto-tune) selected PIO4 hda: host side 80-wire cable detection failed, limiting max speed to UDMA33 hda: UDMA/33 mode selected hdb: host max PIO4 wanted PIO255(auto-tune) selected PIO4 hdb: UDMA/33 mode selected ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 Probing IDE interface ide1... Probing IDE interface ide1... hda: ATAPI 48X DVD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 1536kB Cache Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20 hdb: ATAPI 48X DVD-ROM DVD-R CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache snip ata1: SATA max UDMA/100 mmio m...@0xfe02f000 tf 0xfe02f080 irq 23 ata2: SATA max UDMA/100 mmio m...@0xfe02f000 tf 0xfe02f0c0 irq 23 ata1: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 310) ata1.00: ATA-7: SAMSUNG HD160JJ/P, ZM100-43, max UDMA/100 ata1.00: 312581808 sectors, multi 16: LBA48 ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100 ata2: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 310) sata_sil 0000:00:12.0: version 2.3 ata1: SATA max UDMA/100 mmio m...@0xfe02f000 tf 0xfe02f080 irq 23 ata2: SATA max UDMA/100 mmio m...@0xfe02f000 tf 0xfe02f0c0 irq 23 ata1: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 310) ata1.00: ATA-7: SAMSUNG HD160JJ/P, ZM100-43, max UDMA/100 ata1.00: 312581808 sectors, multi 16: LBA48 ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100 ata2: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 310) hdparm -iI /dev/sda reveals: /dev/sda: Model=SAMSUNG, FwRev=ZM100-43, SerialNo=S0DFJ10L405433 Config={ Fixed } RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=34902, SectSize=554, ECCbytes=4 BuffType=DualPortCache, BuffSize=8192kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=16 CurCHS=16383/16/63, CurSects=16514064, LBA=yes, LBAsects=312581808 IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:120,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120} PIO modes: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4 DMA modes: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 *udma5 AdvancedPM=no WriteCache=enabled Drive conforms to: unknown: ATA/ATAPI-1,2,3,4,5,6,7 * signifies the current active mode ATA device, with non-removable media Model Number: SAMSUNG HD160JJ/P Serial Number: S0DFJ10L405433 Firmware Revision: ZM100-43 Standards: Used: ATA/ATAPI-7 T13 1532D revision 4a Supported: 7 6 5 4 & some of 8 Configuration: Logical max current cylinders 16383 16383 heads 16 16 sectors/track 63 63 -- CHS current addressable sectors: 16514064 LBA user addressable sectors: 268435455 LBA48 user addressable sectors: 312581808 Logical/Physical Sector size: 512 bytes device size with M = 1024*1024: 152627 MBytes device size with M = 1000*1000: 160041 MBytes (160 GB) cache/buffer size = 8192 KBytes (type=DualPortCache) Capabilities: LBA, IORDY(can be disabled) Standby timer values: spec'd by Standard, no device specific minimum R/W multiple sector transfer: Max = 16 Current = 16 DMA: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 *udma5 Cycle time: min=120ns recommended=120ns PIO: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4 Cycle time: no flow control=120ns IORDY flow control=120ns Commands/features: Enabled Supported: * SMART feature set Security Mode feature set * Power Management feature set * Write cache * Look-ahead * WRITE_BUFFER command * READ_BUFFER command * NOP cmd * DOWNLOAD_MICROCODE * 48-bit Address feature set * Device Configuration Overlay feature set * Mandatory FLUSH_CACHE * FLUSH_CACHE_EXT * SMART error logging * SMART self-test * General Purpose Logging feature set * Segmented DOWNLOAD_MICROCODE * Gen1 signaling speed (1.5Gb/s) * Gen2 signaling speed (3.0Gb/s) * Host-initiated interface power management * Phy event counters Device-initiated interface power management * Software settings preservation * SMART Command Transport (SCT) feature set * SCT Long Sector Access (AC1) * SCT LBA Segment Access (AC2) * SCT Error Recovery Control (AC3) * SCT Features Control (AC4) * SCT Data Tables (AC5) Security: Master password revision code = 65534 supported not enabled not locked frozen not expired: security count supported: enhanced erase 90min for SECURITY ERASE UNIT. 88min for ENHANCED SECURITY ERASE UNIT. Checksum: correct /etc/fstab: /dev/sda2 /boot reiserfs defaults 1 2 /dev/sda3 / reiserfs defaults 0 1 /dev/sda5 /usr/local reiserfs defaults 0 1 /dev/sda6 none swap sw 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 So should I remove hdparm and install sdparm? It's been a long time since I've seen this system. hdparm is in the default run level, but does not make since on this drive? (just looking for comments and confirmation that hdparm is not needed for the this drive.... James /etc/fstab