Both laptops have IDE drives. The kernel image booted on the two laptops are exactly the same. Please let me know if this doesn't answer your question -- I'm new to this and not quite sure I understand the question. Thanks for the quick reply! On 1/11/08, Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I have the same kernel and configuration on my Dell D600 (an older > > version of the same laptop), and hdparm –d works just fine. > > We you using the IDE driver for PATA devices and the SATA driver for SATA > devices ? If so the really nasty hacks for that were dropped as current > libata PATA support is more than good enough for driving both ports and > having one driver for both cleaned up stuff a lot. > > Alan > -- Kristin Vadas Marsicano kristin.marsicano@xxxxxxxxx kristinisme.blogspot.com - To unsubscribe from this list: 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
