From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322) Description of problem: hdparm -tT /dev/sda gives the following errors /dev/sda: Timing cached reads: 2440 MB in 2.00 seconds = 1219.92 MB/sec HDIO_DRIVE_CMD(null) (wait for flush complete) failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device Timing buffered disk reads: 170 MB in 3.01 seconds = 56.44 MB/sec HDIO_DRIVE_CMD(null) (wait for flush complete) failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device This only happens on Systems with SATA and Fedora 4. On Fedora 3 with SATA everything works fine Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 2.6.13-1.1532_FC4smp How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.installing Fedora 4 on System with SATA 2.hdparm -tT /dev/sda Actual Results: i get the error messages posted above Expected Results: a normal hdparm test like on Fedora 3 Additional info: on Systems with FEdora 4 and SATA we have high load while copying
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 138674 ***
This problem still happens in hdparm-6.3-2.2 and FC5. $ sudo /sbin/hdparm -i /dev/sda Reopen with version FC5. /dev/sda: HDIO_GET_IDENTITY failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device and hdparm 6.6 was released. Please See : http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=136732