[plug] Checking if a drive is running in pio or dma?

[sothisistheinternet]

On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 6:51 AM, W.Kenworthy <billk at iinet.net.au> wrote:
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>  On Wed, 2008-04-02 at 00:37 +0800, sothisistheinternet wrote:
>  > Hi all,
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>  > How do I check to see if a hard drive is running under PIO or DMA
>  > mode? I'm running FC5 at present, if that matters.
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>  bunyip ~ # hdparm -i /dev/sda
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This one gives me an error

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>  bunyip ~ # hdparm -I /dev/sda
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This one works on my SATA drives :)