ide bus settings

[David Niemi]

On Fri, 2005-10-07 at 00:53 +0200, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> Am Do, den 06.10.2005 schrieb David Niemi um 23:07:
> 
> > Looking through the messages log I came across the following:
> > 
> >         ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override
> >         with idebus=xx
> > 
> > Don't most new PCs with SATA have a 66Mhz or faster bus?
> 
> A discussion about this can be found in following thread:
> 
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2005-August/msg00223.html
> 
> So don't force the value to be different.
> 
> > What is the command / program for setting the IDE / SATA Settings?
> 
> hdparm / sdparm
> 
> Most settings are autodetected by the kernel and enforcing other
> settings may be dangerous as causing risk of data loss. So act with
> care.
> 
> Alexander
> 
Thanks for the information Alexander, I'll leave well enough alone.

 I'd found the hdparm but it doesn't like SATA drives as /dev/sdx.