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

Daniel Skorka linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Tue, 30 May 2006 19:15:16 +0200


On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 12:34:26PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> sdparm can only do whatever the in-kernel SCSI->SATA translation layer
> implements, which is not much at the moment.
> 
> In fact, hdparm does a lot more right now.

Thank you for your answers. I assume that means at the moment there
simply is no way to enable/disable DMA or to change the transfer speed
(if that makes sense at all) 

Daniel