Re: Acoustic management with SATA?

[Terje Fåberg <terje_fb@yahoo.no>]

Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org> skrev: 

> Not yet, maybe in 2.6.11.  The ATA passthrough is
> missing still.  If you are crazy enough, you can
> try the libata-dev patch queue (if you cannot find
> it, that means you should not be using it. Please
> wait for 2.6.11 in that case), maybe the support 
> is already in there.  Maybe.  And maybe it will eat
> your disk alive and screaming, so be careful.

Thanks a lot for your pointers. According to
http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-ide%40vger.kernel.org/msg00258.html
the ATA passthrough will not hit mainline before
March. So not before 2.6.12. 

I also had a look at the corresponding ChangeSets in
the libata-dev bk repository, but there are about a
dozen of ChangeSets related to passthru. So not
trivially extractable.

I think I will try 2.6.11-rcX+libata-dev at the
weekend. I will copy the shell and hdparm into the
ramdisk, so the kernel will never even think about
touching my precious filesystems. 

Regards,
Terje