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Parallel IDE drivers

Posted Sep 7, 2006 10:20 UTC (Thu) by cortana (subscriber, #24596)
In reply to: Parallel IDE drivers by rvfh
Parent article: Parallel IDE drivers

I believe this is a limitation of USB mass storage devices--similar to how you can't run smartctl on them. You might be able to do a few things with sdparm that you couldn't with hdparm, however--since they are 'SCSI' devices, after all.

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