Re: SATA HD & DMA ?

From: John-Paul Stewart (jpstewart_at_binaryfoundry.ca)
Date: 08/31/04


Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 11:28:42 -0400

Michael Heiming wrote:
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> In comp.os.linux.hardware Hish <haleil@comcastnotspam.net> suggested:
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>>Hello,
>>Just curious...Do Serial ATA 150 drives benefit from enabling dma
>>via hdparm the way regular ATA drives do?
>>Any special optins I should use?
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> Mh, doesn't work for me at all:
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> Might depend on how your system uses SATA, mine recognizes them
> as SCSI and those hdparm settings don't work with SCSI.

Do SATA drives have any mode of operation other than DMA? It my
understanding that with SCSI turning DMA on/off is with hdparm is
impossible because DMA is the only possible mode of operation. I'd
expect it to be the same with SATA.



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