hdparm equivalent for SATA Harddrives? Is one even needed?

DrWoland · l33t Joined: 13 Nov 2004 Posts: 603

As everyone knows, hdparm doesn't work very well for changing or even getting SATA drive settings. Can SATA harddrives really be tweaked and is there an alternative to hdparm that does this?
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ilythiiri · n00b Joined: 17 Jan 2005 Posts: 22 Location: Temuco, Chile

i dont know if there is a hdparm for sata drives, but there is a patch for libata to increase the size of the request packets, u can find more info in http://kerneltrap.org/node/2767
Does anyone if is normal that qhen the pc starts, it recognizes the sata drives as DMA 133 and not DMA 150 as it should be???