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On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 10:22 AM, Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Newer machines invariably have SATA drives: |
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> *-disk |
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> description: ATA Disk |
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> product: ST9500420ASG |
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> vendor: Seagate |
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> physical id: 0 |
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> bus info: scsi@0:0.0.0 |
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> logical name: /dev/sda |
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> version: 0004 |
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> serial: 5VJ377P2 |
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> size: 465GiB (500GB) |
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> capabilities: partitioned partitioned:dos |
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> configuration: ansiversion=5 signature=cf5ac2f0 |
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> |
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> From dmesg: |
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> |
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> ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 abar m2048@0xf1005000 port 0xf1005100 irq 35 |
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> ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 abar m2048@0xf1005000 port 0xf1005180 irq 35 |
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> |
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> Do I need to emerge hdparm for such a drive? |
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As long as the drivers are in your kernel the drives should work. |
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hdparm is not required to use your disks, but you can use it to change |
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power-saving mode etc. (for example my 2TB drive had very aggressive |
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spindown when power-saving was OFF, but when I use hdparm to turn |
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power-saving ON at the highest level, the crazy spindowns stopped) |
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