On Donnerstag, 15. November 2007, Marc Blumentritt wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I want to optimize the "sound output" of my shiny new sata disc, but I
> have some problems to set hdparm options. My options look like this:


> # SATA Disk
> sda_args="-d1 -c1 -u1 -A1 -S6 -M128 -B1"

which are all wrong for sata disks.

>
> hive linux # hdparm /dev/sda
>
> /dev/sda:
>  IO_support    =  0 (default 16-bit)
>  readonly      =  0 (off)
>  readahead     = 256 (on)
>  geometry      = 30394/255/63, sectors = 488281250, start = 0

look perfectly fine.


> * Running hdparm on /dev/sda ...
>  HDIO_SET_32BIT failed: Invalid argument
>  HDIO_SET_UNMASKINTR failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device
>  HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device
>  HDIO_DRIVE_CMD failed: Input/output error

which is perfectly fine too.

You don't set 33bit mode for sata disks.
You don't set unmask interrupt for sata disks.
You don't set udma for sata disks (they use it anyway).

You use sdparm for sata disks.
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