The hdparm initscripts calls 'hdparm -q $args $device' which causes hdparm to output a drive's current config if $args contains more than one argument (because -q just supresses the output of the one parameter immediately following the -q). Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge "=hdparm-5.5-r2" 2. Edit /etc/conf.d/hdparm to contain something like 'disc0_args="-A1 -a64 -c3 -d1 -m16 -S120 -u1"' 3. '/etc/init.d/hdparm start' Actual Results: The settings for disc0 were applied and reported: * Running hdparm on /dev/discs/disc0/disc... setting fs readahead to 64 setting 32-bit IO_support flag to 3 setting multcount to 16 setting unmaskirq to 1 (on) setting using_dma to 1 (on) multcount = 16 (on) IO_support = 3 (32-bit w/sync) unmaskirq = 1 (on) using_dma = 1 (on) readahead = 64 (on) Expected Results: The settings should have been applied silently, just like they are when only a single argument like 'disc0_args="-d1"' is present.
Created attachment 36742 [details, diff] Change for the initscript to fix the bug Changed the hdparm call to not use -q (which only works for the first parameter) and redirected output of hdparm to /dev/null.
thx for pointing that out, fixed in -r3 :)
