Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote:
I then shut the computer down and I writing this from a liveCD. I do not even want to access the disk read only without knowing I have not messed up. So: does anybody know if hdparm -X /dev/hda is safe (on a running system...)?
This setting, like most other hdparm commands, is just temporary. As soon as you reset the drive (happens during a reboot) all goes back to the defaults.
