Hi. I have an external drive which, depending when it gets plugged in, can be one of sdb/sdc etc. etc. Because of this, I have written a udev rule which creates the more predictable /dev/drive symlink. I want to change some settings on said drive, and running hdparm "stuff" /dev/drive works just fine. However, I have not been successful in getting the init script to work via the symlink, eg: drive_args="stuff" does not work, but sdX_args="stuff" does. I have looked in the init.d file, and the commented section describes loads of folders which I do not have. Is the init script obsolete? BTW, I am running a ~amd64 install, with everything up to date (openrc-0.8.2, hdparm-9.37) Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. add drive_args="-B 100" to /etc/conf.d/hdparm file 2. restart init script Actual Results: nothing happens Expected Results: hdparm is run on /dev/drive emerge --info Portage 2.2.0_alpha30 (default/linux/amd64/10.0/desktop/kde, gcc-4.5.2, glibc-2.13-r2, 2.6.38-gentoo-r2 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.38-gentoo-r2-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i7_CPU_Q_820_@_1.73GHz-with-gentoo-2.0.2 Timestamp of tree: Sun, 17 Apr 2011 09:30:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 4.2_p8 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.11-r3 dev-lang/python: 2.7.1-r1 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.4 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.2 sys-apps/openrc: 0.8.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.5 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.68 sys-devel/automake: 1.9.6-r3, 1.10.3, 1.11.1-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.21 sys-devel/gcc: 4.5.2 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.4-r1 sys-devel/make: 3.82 sys-kernel/linux-headers: 2.6.38 virtual/os-headers: 0 Repositories: gentoo multimedia sunrise ikelos LOCAL Installed sets: ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="*" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/config /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/php/apache2-php5.2/ext-active/ /etc/php/apache2-php5.3/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5.2/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5.3/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5.2/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5.3/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/etc/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs distlocks fixlafiles fixpackages news parallel-fetch 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hdparm is good for static devices at boot time. if you want to run on dynamic stuff, i suggest you extend your existing udev rules to manually execute hdparm with the options you desire. then you wont need static naming at all.
