[linux-audio-user] Re: hdparm

[Matt Barber]

->> I know, it's really weird.  The motherboard/chipset actually puts
the
> SATA drive on the primary master channel (hda).  I think that's what's
> screwing me up.  I'd have to remove it if I wanted to put some other
> device on primary master, since I can't move it to another channel or
to
> a normal standalone SATA channel.

Not necessarily. There is a kernel config option (at build time) that 
says something like 'Boot offboard chipsets first'. This option tells 
the kernel that drive controllers not in the normal chipset get first 
option to boot. If the system finds them (like SATA) then SATA could 
become hda. However I would have then assumed the normal hda EIDE drive 
would become hdc.<-


>From the mobo manual:

*Important Notice on Using IDE Drives and a Serial ATA Drive*

Serial ATA uses the primary IDE's master channel.  Therefore, if a
serial ATA drive is connected to the serial ATA connector, DO NOT
connect an IDE device to IDE-P's Master channel.  IDE drives can be
connected to the primary slave, secondary master, and secondary slave
channels.


This says to me it's hardwired into the mobo, but I could be wrong.


->> Maybe the 2.6 kernel would work with it better, but I'm hesitant to
put
> it on there right now, since this is my only computer.

What distro are you running? I would think that an nforce-2 would be 
much better with a 2.6 kernel. I run 2.6.8.1 and things work well for me
on my Gentoo boxes. On my Planet box I'm still pretty far back with an 
older 2.4 kernel, but that's very old Pentium 2 or 3 hardware IIRC. One 
of those big, box-like processors that look like a piece of bread 
sticking up from the MB...<-



Planet ccrma 2.4.26 kernel, RH9.  Worked the same way in the
out-of-the-box RH9 kernel, too.

Matt