>> So libata has the overhead of using SCSI commands? At least >> that's what it suggests to the normal user. > >libata issues standard ATA commands to disks and CF cards, and ATAPI to >other devices. The current tree knows how to use LBA28 commands >opportunistically so its generating basically the same command stream as >the old IDE layer 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? (BTW, did you mean LBA48?) Jan Engelhardt -- - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
