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Subject: Re: libata-pata works on ICH4-M
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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On Mer, 2006-04-12 at 11:55 +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> That sounds nice, but does hdparm also work with it? The last time I 
> tried to hdparm a SCSI-style device (usb flash disk, /dev/sda), it did 
> not work, only sdparm did the job. Will this also be the case with libata?

Ask the hdparm maintainers. Its mostly obsoleted by blktool and the like
which are generic

> (BTW, did you mean LBA48?)

No I meant LBA28. An LBA48 command takes far longer to issue than LBA28