On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 07:00:06PM +0100, Christian Franke wrote: >> >> Very interesting. Do you think any of these features could be useful as a >> default option in grub-mkconfig? >> >> > > At least the --health check and --security-freeze are IMO recommended > for each disk. Both is also done by a typical PC BIOS. AAM and standby > settings are more user specific. The problem is that this relies on > native ATA support which is now only available for controllers supported > by ata.mod. > > At least for the boot disk, such hdparm calls could be added by e.g. > extending 'prepare_grub_to_access_device'.
But if the firmware already did, wouldn't this be a waste of boot time? -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all." _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel