Sata disk with 16 bit IO_support

[Joan Tur]

Es Dimarts, 26 de Setembre de 2006 21:31, en Felipe Alfaro Solana va escriure:
| On 9/26/06, Joan Tur <joantur at cancullet.org> wrote:
| > Hallo!
| >
| > My brand new laptop (LG LW20) has got a 1,8" sata disk drive; I've
| > installed Kubuntu 6.06.1 in it, and have noticed that IO_support was 0
| > (16 bit), instead of 1 (32 bit).
| >
| > Running "hdparm -c1 /dev/sda" shows "HDIO_SET_32BIT failed: Invalid
| > argument"
|
| AFAIK, most of the tunables of hdparm are useless for SATA controllers
| (only for PATA controllers). Anyways, you can be pretty sure you're
| using 32-bit access, bus-master transfers to and from your hard disk,
| since almost all SATA controllers do support bus-master and are based
| on PCI or PCI-Express bus designs (not ISA).
I think you're wright, as I get about 18MB/s transfer rates from hdparm.

Thanks for your answer  ;)
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