Re: [CentOS] help with hdparm

Jerry Geis wrote:

I am running centos 5.2 i686.

The /boot/config indicates that VIA82CXXXX is built into the kernel. CONFIG_BLK_DEV_VIA82CXXX=y

my lspci -v gives 00:0f.0 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. CX700M2 IDE (prog-if 8a

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those are two different chipsets, the CX700M2 is for the C4 family of ITX mini boards, while hte 82C7xxx stuff is their older northbridges for desktop systems...

googling for that, I saw mention that Via has a linux patch for it, and apparently all it does is add a new PCI vendor/device ID so the existing drivers recognize the new chip. you can probably find the CX700M2's PCI vendor/device ID with lspci(8)