[ltp] Head's up: new Lenovo BIOSes and HD APM (hdparm -B)

[Jiang Qian]

> This reminds me of a question I have been wanting to ask for quite 
> some
> time:
> Having a T43-1871 with a SATA-controller most of hdparm seems to either
> be not working or to be useless. For example, I can't use '-d'
> (Inappropriate ioctl) or '-X' (Input/Output Error). Should these work?
> Do I need another program that is designed for SCSI drives? Or is there
> simply nothing to tune here?
> The other thing is that 'smartctl -a /dev/sda' tells me my drive does
> not support SMART, while 'hdparm -I' clearly states that it does. Do I
> need to use a newer version of the smartmontools (currently 5.32)? Do I
> need to turn on some options in the kernel?
Which version of kernel you're using? Did patch it if you're before 
version 2.6.14?
http://thinkwiki.org/wiki/Problems_with_SATA_and_Linux#No_SMART_support
Also did you try issuing the command
smartctl -d ata -a /dev/sda
Best
Jiang
> 
> Daniel
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