Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264490AbUAFPJZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Jan 2004 10:09:25 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264500AbUAFPJZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Jan 2004 10:09:25 -0500 Received: from mail.gmx.de ([213.165.64.20]:60038 "HELO mail.gmx.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S264490AbUAFPJY (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Jan 2004 10:09:24 -0500 X-Authenticated: #4512188 Message-ID: <3FFACF9C.40001@gmx.de> Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2004 16:09:16 +0100 From: "Prakash K. Cheemplavam" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031208 Thunderbird/0.4 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: newbiz CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Karel_Kulhav=FD?= Subject: Re: won't work: 2.6.0 && SiI 3112 SATA References: <20040106135634.A5825@beton.cybernet.src> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 678 Lines: 18 > Question (for Jeff ?) : > > Why is my drive (with 2.4.23 and libata2) on /dev/sda ? Why isn't it on > /dev/hde, like (afaik) everybody else ? I'd like to run hdparm to > improve performance (hdparm -tT gives ~ 20 Mb/s) I am not Jeff but, SATA is embedded SCSI infrastructure, thus you get sda device. Performace is so bad because of workaround for Seagate drives (max 15kb/transfer or alike). HDParm won't help you. Prakash - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/