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//usr/share/doc/hdparm/Changelog
hdparm-9.62: - Work around unexpected sign-extending of left-shifted unsigned values by gcc hdparm-9.61: - fixes for --set-sector-size and reporting of physical/logical sector sizes, courtesy of Western Digital. hdparm-9.60: - support for ioSafe Solo with jMicron bridge, courtesy Matthias-Christian Ott. hdparm-9.59: - decode more bits from id[69], courtesy Adrián Kálazi. - allow passing of custom LDFLAGS from the environment. - add new "static" target. - fix --dco-identify max sectors, courtesy of Paul Sultana. - get rid of leftover "unknown" variables from identify.c - fixed return values from get_log_page_data(). hdparm-9.58: - fix bug from 9.57 whereby -I for non-ATA might segfault. hdparm-9.57: - added --set-sector-size flag to change logical sector size. - fixed handling of non-512 byte logical sectors in several places. - fixed possibility of infinite loop in sysfs_find_attr_file_path(). - respect the "quiet" flag in a few more places. - skip "full device" checks for character devices (eg. /dev/sg*). - don't issue READ_LOG_EXT commands unless the drive claims to support them. - work around kernel/sysfs bug for "start" lba. hdparm-9.56: - fixed byte order for --Istdout so that --Istdin can grok it - added --Iraw for raw binary output of IDENTIFY data to a file hdparm-9.55: - added #include <sys/sysmacros.h> for major()/minor() macros hdparm-9.54: - Partial revert of Jmicron changes, from Jan Friesse. hdparm-9.53: - Read Drive Capacity fixes from Iestyn Walters. - SET MAX ADDRESS fixes from Tom Yan <tom.ty89@gmail.com>. - added --security-prompt-for-password to --security-help output. - fwdownload changes from Jihoon Lee. hdparm-9.52: - Jmicron SATA-USB bridge support from Jan Friesse <jfriesse@gmail.com>. hdparm-9.51: - add support for Jmicron USB-SATA bridges, courtesy Jan Friesse <jfriesse@gmail.com>. hdparm-9.51: - New --security-prompt-for-password flag for use with the various --security- actions. - Makefile tweak from Mike Frysinger. - fix spelling/typos in man page and "removable", courtesy of Alex Mestiashvili. - fix spelling/typos in --sanitize-crypto-scramble, courtesy of Tom Yan. - fix NULL password handling in --security-unlock, courtesy of Tom Yan. hdparm-9.50: - minor fixes for sanitize device stuff. hdparm-9.49: - add ACS-3 overprovisioning support, courtesy of Intel. - fix bug in display of security section and use updated erase-time values from ACS-3, courtesy of Patrick Higgins. - increase timeout on fwdownload to 2 minutes, courtesy of Rusy Carruth. - fix bugs from devslp patch. hdparm-9.48: - fix bugs from devslp patch. hdparm-9.47: - added devslp patch (IDENTIFY word 76) from David Woodhouse. - help and manpage fixes from Michal Minar. hdparm-9.46: - fix compilation with "musl libc". - added "hex:aabbcc.." for binary security passwords. - return EIO when read_big_block() fails - use llabs() rather than abs() in identify.c hdparm-9.45: - fixed blocksize handling in fibmap code to use result from FIGETBSZ in more places (Anton Altaparmakov). - fixed divide by zero exception in geom.c - tidying up formatting in sgio.c hdparm-9.44: - changed reg_flags struct to more closely match kernel definition (Lucas Magasweran). - added fwdownload mode "E" support (Rusty Carruth). - fix timeouts for security-erase (again!) - change display of security "supported" to handle ambiguous reporting from drives - don't rely upon C-library for byte-swapping - added --dco-setmax support, courtesy of Geoff Papilion. hdparm-9.43 - rearrange flag execution so that the idle/standby/sleep "now" flags are executed last. hdparm-9.42 - fix ordering of -S -y flags - spelling, typo, and formatting fixes for manpage and others - set block-count to 1 for Security commands sent via SAT (sgio) - use FIGETBSZ to determine filesystem block size for fibmap -- needed for FAT - fix master password revcode handling - try and fix reg_flags (again!) for old IDE taskfile ioctls - fixed '&&' bug in dco_identify code - force sector dumps (read-sector, identify, ..) to use le16 output format hdparm-9.41 - proper SCT identify info courtesy of Leonid Evdokimov <leon@darkk.net.ru> - updated raid1ext4trim.sh-1.5 script hdparm-9.40 - avoid HDIO_GETGEO_BIG when possible (doesn't exist in linux-2.6.xx and beyond) - pad secure erase timeouts by 30minutes rather than 5minutes. hdparm-9.39 - added -R flag to control Read-Write-Verify feature, courtesy of Gordan Bobic - nuked leftover sgio.c.orig file hdparm-9.38 - updated wiper.sh to allow all SCSI_DISK major numbers - updated handing for very long SECURITY-ERASE times - added -J flag for wdidle3 set/get hdparm-9.37 - handle raid1 start_lba values, and show -1 for indeterminte raid start_lba values - abort --fibmap when start_lba is indeterminate - updated wiper.sh to fix a kink with hfsplus filesystems - updated wiper.sh to no longer rely on the obsolete "rdev" command hdparm-9.36 - udpated raid1ext4trim.sh script to version 1.4 - updated wiper.sh to support hfsplus and ntfs filesystem types, courtesy of Heiko Wegeler - updated wiper.sh with new flag to enable unattended operation, and handle SIGPIPE - updated manpage to indicate max sector range of 65335 for TRIM hdparm-9.35 - third go at fixing cdb issues, fixing -B flag. Got it this time (finally). hdparm-9.34 - fix bad/missing cdb transfer length field for IDENTIFY and some other commands hdparm-9.33 - fix AHCI issues in sg16(): don't ask for sense_data on DATA-xfer commands - fix compiler warnings on old systems - fixed compilation on old systems lacking __be16 hdparm-9.32 - fix b0rked (since 9.27?) SET_FEATURES commands; eg. -B, -M, etc.. hdparm-9.31 - fix oflags bug in do_taskfile_cmd(). - change --user-master to default to "user" instead of "master", for better drive compatibility. - use drive-supplied timeout (plus a little) for security-erase commands - use 15 secs as default general timeout (instead of 5) - ensure timeouts get passed through to sg16 correctly - increment revision-code when setting master-password, rather than always using 0xff11 - update HPA description in manpage hdparm-9.30 - report word[105] in -I : max 512-byte blocks of range-data per DSM/Trim command - fix wiper.sh/hdparm to use only as many LBA ranges per TRIM as the drive can handle - manpage / help-text cleanups from Benno Schulenberg <bensberg@justemail.net> hdparm-9.29 - add --offset for use with -t, to get timings from middle/end of drive, courtesy of Sergei Kirjanov <rewlad@gmail.com> - restrict --trim-sector-ranges-stdin to small TRIM commands on most drives - fix w62 bug in -I - dump all data bytes with --verbose - warn about bad/missing sense data, but continue regardless - show in/out data[] separately with --verbose - Add reporting to -I for sata3 signaling speed. - force use of ATA_16 for all commands to ATAPI devices. - supply a sector count of "1" for IDENTIFY commands, to satisfy buggy USB3 bridges. hdparm-9.28 - check for EBADE for IDE/ATAPI compatibility with recent kernels - always issue both methods when setting DVD speed with -E - use /usr/sbin/rdev to find rootdev in wiper.sh - fix reporting of Sector-0 offset, from Martin Petersen - first crack at decoding the "WD Idle3" vendor-unique command (disabled by default) hdparm-9.27 - wiper.sh updated to wiper-2.3 - fix definition of reg_flags in sgio.h to work with old IDE drivers again hdparm-9.26 - wiper.sh updated to wiper-2.2 - zero-day bugfix for "hdparm -i" on model names with embedded blanks - bugfix for --security-erase-enhanced, courtesy of Cyril.Guyot@hitachigst.com - set _FILE_OFFSET_BITS in geom.c (still need to do this in hdparm.c someday) - added reporting for "Deterministic read ZEROs after TRIM" feature hdparm-9.25 - slightly tidier output from --trim-* commands - restrict --trim-sector-ranges-stdin to limit from /sys/block/sd?/queue/max_sectors_kb - updated wiper.sh to use --trim-sector-ranges-stdin rather than --trim-sector-ranges hdparm-9.24 - fixed malloc() bug in --trim-sector-ranges: it was allocating half the required size (oops). hdparm-9.23 - minor cosmetic changes in fibmap.c - added --trim-sector-ranges-stdin for wiper.sh-2.0 - tightened up excess-args checking on a number of flags - added name to version line hdparm-9.22 - added fsync() call inside --fallocate - fixed fibmap.c to work around an observed ext4 bug with FIEMAP's "LAST" flag - added detailed comments to wiper.sh - more rework of wiper.sh, added xfs support, added generic online support - twiddled the code in geom.c slightly - cosmetic changes in fibmap.c and the manpage description of --fibmap - added kernel patch for compat_ioctl::fiemap support hdparm-9.21 - fixes and (big) speedups to wiper.sh (v1.2) script hdparm-9.20 - unified the online/offline wiper scripts into a single wiper.sh script - fixed bug whereby the wiper scripts generated command-lines too long for bash - fixed non-zero exit status from successful --trim-sector-ranges - reimplemented --trim-sector-ranges to use sg16() directly, with aligned data - allow wiper scripts to issue TRIM with up to 255 sectors of LBA-range data - added kernel patch file for sil24 protocol fix, needed for wiper/TRIM - cosmetic updates to the wiper scripts - fixed confirmation prompt text for --trim-sector-ranges - fixed manpage example for --trim-sector-ranges - removed some dead code (previously #if 0'd) hdparm-9.19 - fixed compile of fallocate.c on older systems - fixed man page description of --fallocate (parameters were reversed) hdparm-9.18 - fixed -E (set cd/dvd streaming speed) - updated man page for --fallocate, indicating ext4/xfs only - bumped max_sectors to 8000000 per TRIM in wiper scripts - s/awk/$GAWK/ in wiper.sh.online script - fixed Changelog for 9.17 hdparm-9.17 - added wiper/ subdirectory with preliminary SSD-wiper (TRIM) scripts - nuked kernel_patches/ subdirectory - Capitalize first word of each line of help output - added ioctl(FIEMAP) support to --fibmap - added --fallocate flag - added --trim-sector-ranges flag - removed --trim-sectors flag - removed --fibmap-sector flag - first cut at wiper.sh script, to trim unused space on a non-rw ext[234] filesystem - embed VERSION string for easier digging out with strings(1) hdparm-9.16 - new protocol-specific forms of --fwdownload flags - added --trim-sectors flag - prevent segfaults when get_identify_data() fails - added full word69 features reporting for -I - added BuffSize=unknown to -i hdparm-9.15 - fix sgio.c LBA48 bugs on big-endian machines - fix -m to work with libata - added development snapshot of --erase-sectors (256) command (do not use) - added development snapshot of --format-track (256) command (do not use) hdparm-9.14 - display DSM determinate/indeterminate TRIM support in -I output - tidy output of CFA features from -I - switch back to O_RDONLY for everything, to keep Debian/udevd happy http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=522091 Note that the kernel returns EFAULT rather than EPERM from SG_IO for non-root users, and *no* SG_IO functions work for non-root users now. hdparm-9.13 - fix O_DIRECT (--direct) for arch's other than x86 - strip leading/trailing spaces from -i model/fwrev/serno strings hdparm-9.12 - added logical/physical sector size reporting - updated -I output with SATA-2.6 additions - support APM level retrieval with -B flag - updated -C output to match ATA8 - added "form factor" and "rotation" display to -I, courtesy of Martin K.Petersen. hdparm-9.11 - switch back to ATA_16 by default: required by libata for ATAPI devices - add --prefer-ata12 to force use of ATA_12 when needed (some USB enclosures) hdparm-9.10 - try and improve CF card detection - fix display of mwdma modes 3,4 for CF cards hdparm-9.9 - recalculate cyls when kernel returns a truncated value hdparm-9.8 - fix -N to correctly use top 4 LBA bits on non-LBA48 drives hdparm-9.7 - FIX RATHER NASTY LBA48/LBA28 CONFUSION BUGS - use ATA_12 by default (helps USB), ATA_16 only when needed for LBA48 hdparm-9.6 - fix -N for 1.5TB drives (from Justin Maggard) hdparm-9.5 - byteswap ID strings for fwdownload workarounds - Makefile fixes for $(STRIP) from Wolfram Sang hdparm-9.4 - nuked --fwdownload80 in favour of model-specific workarounds - use mlock() instead of MAP_POPULATE in fwdownload.c - issue SET_STREAMING command as part of -E (for newer CD/DVD drives) courtesy of Thomas Orgis <thomas@orgis.org> and Thomas Fritzsche" <tf@noto.de>. hdparm-9.3 - new --idle-immediate and --idle-unload commands hdparm-9.2 - fix WWN output from -I hdparm-9.1 - tidy up output from --dco-identify, add more info to manpage - add kernel (device driver) bug detection/warning to -N output hdparm-9.0 - update debian directory contents - add --dco-freeze, --dco-identify, --dco-restore flags - fix sgio.c to be more clever around the lba28 boundary - add supposedly obsolete "cache/buffer size" reporting to -I - new --fwdownload flag - fix error reporting from sg16(). - dump entire returned sense desc[] in sgio.c with --verbose hdparm-8.9 - support /sys/block symlinks (some kernels seem to have those). hdparm-8.8 - fix -r, -a so that they display their values again (duh). - define BLKGETSIZE64 locally to avoid broken system headers that use u64 with it. - update man page to indicate that --security-* flags must be standalone - fix -Q to permit querying queue_depth (was broken in v8.7). hdparm-8.7 - fixes to permit building against older kernels which lack SG_IO - added build script for empeg systems - removed -R, -U flags: kernel support is broken and being removed - fixed IO_support output - prevent error messages from default flags - added sysfs.c, geom.c, fibmap.c - use sysfs for device start_lba/nsectors values whereever possible (for >= 2TB drives) - new standalone --fibmap and --fibmap-sector flags - converted -Q to access the queue_depth attribute from sysfs (now works for SATA!) - fixed readonly issue with optical drives that some people noticed hdparm-8.6 - add partition safeguards to r/w sector and make_bad_sector hdparm-8.5 - fix u8->u16 bug in security commands for all of 8.x series, Christian Franke - try and quiet errors from flush_buffer_cache() hdparm-8.4 - oops: v8.3 broke --write-sector. Fix it again. hdparm-8.3 - fixed -i display for udma6 - try and exit with errno on fail paths, from Ladislav Michnovic hdparm-8.2 - clear feat register for safety with SET_MAX_ADDRESS command - add note to manpage regarding possible -N transient failures - IDE_TASKFILE bug fixes and cleanups: works with old IDE driver now - fix misreporting of dma modes on some SATA-ATAPI bridged drives hdparm-8.1 - fixed -U parameter bug - added ATA8 minor revision info to -I, courtesy of chrfranke - added WorldWideNumber to -I, courtesy of Raksac hdparm-8.0 - added --make-bad-sector to deliberately create a media error - added --write-sector (aka. --repair-sector) to repair a media error - added --read-sector to test for a media error - Makefile dependency tweaks - added -N (get/set max address/HPA) flag, courtesy of Jakub Bogusz - fixed LBAsects output from -i to use LBA48 values when available - fixed alternate opcode for SLEEPNOW - lots of changes/fixes to sgio.c to support more commands - add detection of buggy Sandisk 16MB CF card - fixed tf_to_lba() bug, courtesy of Jakub Bogusz hdparm-7.7 - fixed bug whereby old data was shown after settings changed (eg. with -W0) - removed old notes about a "correction factor" from man page -tT descriptions - retry open with O_RDONLY if O_RDWR fails with errno==EROFS hdparm-7.6 - added -F flag to flush on-drive write cache buffer - replaced use of shm* functions with of mmap()/mlock() - removed gcc -Wextra flag --> unsupported on Debian Sarge - re-allow use of --security-freeze in combination with other flags hdparm-7.5 - beef up warnings for -s1 flag, as people seem to be ignoring them hdparm-7.4 - ignore ENOTTY response from DRIVE_CMD(NULL) - decode CFA advanced timing information hdparm-7.3 - fixed spelling of --drq-hsm-error in -h output - fixed SG_IO CDB[2] bits for better SAT compliance - fixed version number (v7.2 has "7.1" as version, doh!) - added #ifdef around use of BLKGETSIZE64 - manpage updated - flush_cache before/after -W0 action - use O_RDWR instead of O_RDONLY for better SG_IO compatibility hdparm-7.2 - tweak -C - added more debug info from --verbose - added --drq-hsm-error to test libata EH (VERY DANGEROUS, do not use) - fixed breakage when used with old IDE driver hdparm-7.1 - big-endian fixes for -I, --Istdin, --Istdout - cody tidying in sgio.c - updated help/manpage for -v - marked -s1 as (DANGEROUS) hdparm-7.0 - new command-line parser - allow any chars (except 0x00) in security passwords - fixed -s manpage format error - updated -W manpage description - major internal rework in hdparm.c - added SET_FEATURES subcommand 0x07 to the -s0 sequence (the kernel will eventually have to do this automatically) - fixed duplicate display of udma modes 3,4,5 with -i - added Timed-Command-Completion (TLC) data for -I - added support for SG_IO (SAT) ATA_16 command transport - ignore case for longargs (eg. --istdout or --Istdout) - remove dependencies on <linux/hdreg.h> - added query wcache (-W) - enhanced query acoustic (-M) - added kernel_patches directory with patches for ATAPI support hdparm-6.9 - added -s flag to control power-up in standby (thanks to chrfranke) - make --Istdin more robust - added -I recognition of SMART Command Transport (SCT) (thanks to chrfranke). - fix X2 over-reporting of -T results - add udma 3/4/5 modes to the -i results hdparm-6.8 - improve parsing/operation of --Istdin function hdparm-6.7 - don't default to "-v" when only new "--" longopts are used. - calculate integrity word if not correct - remove used code/parameter from identify() - fix "(null)" strings from the "Drive conforms to" line of -I - tidied up usage of prefix vars in Makefile - fix bug in -C implementation - new -H flag for (Hitachi) drive temperature hdparm-6.6 - fix build for Redhat/Fedora systems. - disable security commands when building on Redhat/Fedora, as they lack the required data structures in the system headers. hdparm-6.5 - fix -I bugs from version 6.4. hdparm-6.4 - Makefile updates from Mikkel Krautz. - manpage updates / corrections. - fixed bug in -C code. - major updates to bring -I information up to current specs. hdparm-6.3 - added reporting of ATA revision numbers > 7 hdparm-6.2 - eliminated short form (-F) of --security-freeze flag - completely revamped ATA Security Commands (now they actually work sometimes) courtesy of Leonard den Ottolander (a BIG thank-you!) hdparm-6.1 - fix BLKGETSIZE bug introduced in 6.0 - man page clarification for -M (courtesy Stephen Gran) hdparm-6.0 - correct usage of BLKGETSIZE64 (returns bytes instead of sectors) - Added ATA Security switches (Benjamin Benz bbe[AT]heise[DOT]de) hdparm-5.9 - fix security-mode display (Franz Lehner) - fixed -W bug (Stephan Gran) hdparm-5.8 - added HDIO_SET_WCACHE support to -W - fixed double byteswap for big endian - fixed %lld warnings on 64-bit architectures - "hdparm -h" now goes to stdout instead of stderr hdparm-5.7 - fixed output of NULs in -I string fields - fixed big-endian -I crashes from 5.6 - removed remains of defunct major-number checks - added support for BLKGETSIZE64 ioctl internally - added --direct flag to use O_DIRECT on device open - renamed -Istdin to --Istdin - renamed -Istdout to --Istdout - allow other flags to follow any of: -I, --Istdin, --Istdout hdparm-5.6 - fixed reversed device names in idectl script - renamed readahead variables to avoid new glibc conflicts - added -Istdout flag to dump IDENTIFY data as hex - removed MAJOR number checks to open up hdpar for SATA-SCSI drivers hdparm-5.5 - added limited support for SCSI(-controlled) CDROM/optical drives - incorporated various -I clean-up patches from Maciej W. Rozycki - removed wordswap from capacity calculation: latest kenels already do it - fixed slight issues with ATA Revision display - added debian scripts from Stephan Gran hdparm-5.4 - fixed 2.5.67 compile error (LVM_BLK_MAJOR) - first attempt to support BIG_ENDIAN in identify.c - converted -T and -t to use minimum timing intervals (2 and 3 seconds) - fix device size overflow issue with -t - hdparm -I: fixed device size output for devices with reversed endian. - hdparm -i: added explanation for "*" - slight formatting change for -Tt outputs - fixed "(illegal value)" formatting - added CCISS_MAJOR - incorporated RedHat-8.0 and other patches hdparm-5.3 - get rid of malloc() - fix(?) BIG_ENDIAN problems - fix -tT to work on very small drives - fix -p output for parameters >= 100 hdparm-5.2 - compile fixes for latest 2.5.xx kernels - moved -s from CFLAGS to LDFLAGS - fixed manpage formatting error from 5.1 - -i was broken due to non-compatible changes in 2.5.xx - the fix for -i now breaks hdparm -i for really old kernels hdparm-5.1 - fixed segfault from -i on older drives hdparm-5.0 - updated -I to most recent ATA6 draft standard - added -Istdin to process input from /proc/ide/hd*/identify - CFLAGS Makefile fix from Kevin P. Fleming - -X mode names from Martin - tweaked #include's for Slackware - eliminate bogus "udma10" from -I output - formatting fixes for -I from various people - clean compile fixes from Steven Augart <steve@augart.com> - allow -d parameters other than 0/1 for special uses - removed busstate, acoustic, and nowerr from "-v" subset - support for Pacific Digital ADMA-100i hdparm-4.9 - fixed compile error with some kernels hdparm-4.8 - updated -Q to take queue depth as parameter value hdparm-4.7 - add -z option for BLKRRPART ("re-read partition table") - add -Q option to turn on/off tagged queuing - add -M option for acoustic feature set - allow ANY value for the parameter to '-p' (user beware!) - applied APM fixes from Gildas Bazin <gbazin@netcourrier.com> hdparm-4.6 - fix version numbers, update DMA notes in manpage hdparm-4.5 - ENDIAN tidyup, GETGEO fixes, Makefile fixes, mostly courtesy of Maciej W. Rozycki hdparm-4.4 - add -b option, courtesy of Tim Hockin hdparm-4.3 - display most fields as unsigned rather than signed values hdparm-4.2 - completely new format/implementation of "-I" with much more detail - code cleanups for newer libs/compilers hdparm-4.1 - merge some changes from Andre - code cleanups from Neil Macvicar and others - improved output from -i for newer features - incorporate RedHat-7.0 patches hdparm-4.0 - no such release hdparm-3.9 - added IDE_MAJOR[6-9] - nuked the LBAsects display (again!) hdparm-3.8 - fix display of drive capacity (Stephane Eranian <eranian@cello.hpl.hp.com>) - new -E "set cdrom speed" option (Matthias Oster <Matthias.Oster@eikon.tum.de>) - new -R and -U "(un)register hwif" options (Christian Lademann <cal@zls.de>) - new contrib subdirectory with contributed scripts from users. - support for display of newer PIO and DMA/UDMA modes hdparm-3.7 - use O_NONBLOCK for open(), to handle drives with media removed - make "HDIO_DRIVE_CMD failed" messages slightly more verbose - get rid of "HDIO_GET_MULTCOUNT failed" from -i on non-disks hdparm-3.6 - added new -V (version) option - removed confusing LBA "remapping" geometry calculation - small fix to "-I" - Courtesy of Andrzej Krzysztofowicz <ankry@green.mif.pg.gda.pl>: - added support for old XT drives - transfer display in kB/s rather than in MB/s for slow disks - fixed -v for SCSI disks - added -L to lock/unlock door of removeable harddisks - added udma modes 3,4,5.. - updated Makefile to use "destdir" prefix -- Ytiddo <ytiddo@dicksonstreet.com> hdparm-3.5 - fixed compilation under older kernels - fixed udma mode info under older kernels hdparm-3.4 - added udma mode info - added support for SCSI_DISK_MAJOR{0-7} - fix -h (help) to show -y instead of -Y for "standby" - fix display of drive SerialNo: 20 chars instead of just 8 - modify -C -y -Y to each try both possible command codes - add interpretations for use of -X to set UltraDMA modes - add -D for enable/disable drive defect-mgmt hdparm-3.3 - add -C, -y, and -Y flags for IDE power management hdparm-3.2 - force BLKFLSBUF after -T or -t -- kmg@barco.com - fix minor -T/-t mixup in manpage -- hankedr@mail.auburn.edu hdparm-3.1 - permit "-p" with values larger than 5 (for cmd640 readahead) - updated version number on manpage (was way out of date!) hdparm-3.0 - always touch each sector in read_big_block() -- Jon Burgess - move cache timings to new -T option -- piercarl@sabi.demon.co.uk hdparm-2.9: - updated author's email address hdparm-2.8: - fixed compilation against older kernels - changed "KB" to "kB" - support for "-t" on "md" devices (from boris@xtalk.msk.su) - removed "Estimating raw driver speed" message from "-t" because it is likely very incorrect on faster systems - added "-I" to re-issue IDENTIFY command to drive hdparm-2.7: - fixed .lsm file - fixed "hdparm -c" (broken in 2.6) (kudos to clive@epos.demon.co.uk) hdparm-2.6: - tidied up manpage - added support for HDIO_SET_PIO_MODE (kernel 1.3.61+) - reduced codesize by combining fprintf's in help hdparm-2.5: - fixed -i display of eight character fwrev field - rearranged output of -v hdparm-2.4: - added flag to turn on/off "using_dma" flag (kernel 1.3.22+) - added warnings about CMD-640B and RZ1000 bugs to manpage ("-u1") - cleaned up output from -c, added text interpretations - added -c functionality to -v - removed -a functionality from -v for scsi drives - added -n flag for ignoring the "write error" bit from a drive - moved binary from /usr/local/bin to /usr/local/sbin - added support for 3rd/4th IDE interfaces hdparm-2.3: - added -c flag for controlling 32-bit chipset features with 1.2.9+ - fixed error messages when -t used on SCSI drives - fixed date on man page to read 1995 rather than 1994 (late change) hdparm-2.2: - fixed a memory problem in my PC, and now BLKFLSBUF seems safe again - fixed "help" line for "-v" hdparm-2.1: - fixed formatting of DMA info line - added "(DANGEROUS)" to -u,-X,-W options in "hdparm -h" - changed order in which settings are applied: placed standby last hdparm-2.0: - added this file to the distribution - added -f and -q flags to hdparm.c and hdparm.8 - added -N to gcc in makefile - changed installation paths to /usr/local/* in makefile - removed meaningless CPU% measures - removed -s and -x flags - added new -AKPSWXZ flags using new HDIO_DRIVE_CMD ioctl - removed BLKFLSBUF ioctl from everywhere except -t (there may be a kernel bug in the implementation of BLKFLSBUF when used on an active (mounted rw) filesystem). - most features now require (E)IDE driver v2.6 or higher (ide-2.6.patch.65+.gz)
