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

[William Kenworthy]

Reference?  - hdparm can be used on both as far as I know.

Billk


On Sat, 2008-04-05 at 12:00 +0800, Paul Dean wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Install and use sdparm for sd drives.
> 
> Using hdparm on sd drives is not recommended and can cause drive
> failures.
> 
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> Thanks
> 
> Paul Dean.
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> On Fri, 4 Apr 2008 22:56:37 +0800
> sothisistheinternet <sothisistheinternet at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> >On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 6:51 AM, W.Kenworthy <billk at iinet.net.au> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>  On Wed, 2008-04-02 at 00:37 +0800, sothisistheinternet wrote:
> >>  > Hi all,
> >>  >
> >>  > 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.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>  bunyip ~ # hdparm -i /dev/sda
> >>
> >
> >This one gives me an error
> >
> >>
> >>  bunyip ~ # hdparm -I /dev/sda
> >>
> >
> >This one works on my SATA drives :)
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