[NTLUG:Discuss] hdparm for SATA drives

[Robert Citek]

On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 6:36 PM, David Simmons <dave at dgnal.net> wrote:
> Guys - are there any 'recommended practices' to do for SATA drives to
> increase performance like was done for IDE / PATA drives?

May want to try sdparm:

$ aptitude show sdparm
Package: sdparm
State: not installed
Version: 1.02-1
Priority: optional
Section: universe/admin
Maintainer: Ubuntu MOTU Developers <ubuntu-motu at lists.ubuntu.com>
Uncompressed Size: 381k
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.6.1-1)
Description: Output and modify SCSI device parameters
The sdparm utility outputs and in some cases modifies SCSI device
parameters. It can be used to output and modify parameters on any
device that uses a SCSI command set. Apart from SCSI disks, such
devices include CD/DVD drives (irrespective of transport), SCSI and
ATAPI tape drives and SCSI enclosures.

Regards,
- Robert