Package: hdparm
Version: 6.3-3
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
Please apply the attached patch. It groups the variuos options of hdparm
into logical sections.
-- System Information:
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Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16jh
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Versions of packages hdparm depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.6-4GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii lsb-base 3.0-16 Linux Standard Base 3.0 init scrip
hdparm recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
--- hdparm.8.old2006-03-31 20:06:32.319368250 +0200
+++ hdparm.82006-03-31 22:28:55.881307500 +0200
@@ -15,6 +15,157 @@
When no flags are given,
.I -acdgkmnru
is assumed.
+
+.TP
+.SH Show information on hard disk
+
+.TP
+.I -C
+Check the current IDE power mode status, which will always be one of
+.B unknown
+(drive does not support this command),
+.B active/idle
+(normal operation),
+.B standby
+(low power mode, drive has spun down),
+or
+.B sleeping
+(lowest power mode, drive is completely shut down).
+The
+.B -S, -y, -Y,
+and
+.B -Z
+flags can be used to manipulate the IDE power modes.
+
+.TP
+.I -g
+Display the drive geometry (cylinders, heads, sectors),
+the size (in sectors) of the device,
+and the starting offset (in sectors) of the device from
+the beginning of the drive.
+.TP
+.I -i
+Display the identification info that was obtained from the drive at
+.I boot time,
+if available.
+This is a feature of modern IDE drives,
+and may not be supported by older devices.
+The data returned may or may not be current, depending on activity
+since booting the system.
+However, the current multiple sector mode count is always shown.
+For a more detailed interpretation of the identification info,
+refer to
+.I AT Attachment Interface for Disk Drives
+(ANSI ASC X3T9.2 working draft, revision 4a, April 19/93).
+
+.TP
+.I -I
+Request identification info directly from the drive,
+which is displayed in a new expanded format with considerably
+more detail than with the older
+.I -i
+flag.
+
+.TP
+.I -Istdin
+This is a special "no seatbelts" variation on the
+.B -I
+option,
+which accepts a drive identification block as standard input
+instead of using a /dev/hd* parameter.
+The format of this block must be
+.I exactly
+the same as that found in the /proc/ide/*/hd*/identify "files",
+or that produced by the
+.B -Istdout
+option described below.
+This variation is designed for use with collected "libraries" of drive
+identification information, and can also be used on ATAPI
+drives which may give media errors with the standard mechanism.
+.TP
+.I -Istdout
+This option simply dumps the identify data in hex to stdout,
+in a format similar to that from /proc/, and suitable for
+later use with the
+.I -Istdin
+option.
+
+
+.TP
+.I -v
+Display all settings, except -i (same as -acdgkmnru for IDE, -gr for SCSI or
+-adgr for XT). This is also the default behaviour when no flags are specified.
+
+
+
+
+.TP
+.SH Power/Noise settings
+.TP
+.I -A
+Disable/enable the IDE drive\'s read-lookahead feature (usually ON by default).
+Usage:
+.B -A0
+(disable) or
+.B -A1
+(enable).
+
+.TP
+.I -M
+Get/set Automatic Acoustic Management (AAM) setting. Most modern harddisk
drives
+have the ability to speed down the head movements to reduce their noise output.
+The possible values are between 0 and 254. 128 is the most quiet (and therefore
+slowest) setting and 254 the fastest (and loudest). Some drives have only two
+levels (quiet / fast), while others may have different levels between 128 and
254.
+At the moment, most drives only support 3 options, off, quiet, and fast.
+These have been assigned the values 0, 128, and 254 at present, respectively,
+but integer space has been incorporated for future expansion, should this
change.
+
+.TP
+.I -S
+Set the standby (spindown) timeout for the drive. This value is used
+by the drive to determine how long to wait (with no disk activity)
+before turning off the spindle motor to save power. Under such
+circumstances, the drive may take as long as 30 seconds to respond to
+a subsequent disk access, though most drives are much quicker. The
+encoding of the timeout value is somewhat peculiar. A value of zero
+means "timeouts are disabled": the device will not automatically enter
+standby mode. Values from 1 to 240 specify multiples of 5 seconds,
+yielding timeouts from 5 seconds to 20 minutes. Values from 241 to
+251 specify from 1 to 11 units of 30 minutes, yielding timeouts from
+30 minutes to 5.5 hours. A value of 252 signifies a timeout of 21
+minutes. A value of 253 sets a vendor-defined timeout period between 8
+and 12 hours, and the value 254 is reserved. 255 is interpreted as 21
+minutes plus 15 seconds. Note that some older drives may have very
+different interpretations of these values.
+.TP
+.I
