Hi, as of the time I write this report the new hdparm version is only available via freshmeat. I couldn't find any changelog online so I downloaded the package and took the changelog from there: hdparm-6.0 - correct usage of BLKGETSIZE64 (returns bytes instead of sectors) - Added ATA Security switches (Benjamin Benz bbe[AT]heise[DOT]de) Poly Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce:
heinrich / tony: feel like taking care of this ? :)
Created attachment 56567 [details] Ebuild for the new hdparm Newest hdparm ebuild. Addes the new security switch to prevent hard drives from beeing locked. Diff: --- hdparm-5.9.ebuild 2005-02-19 21:47:53.000000000 +0100 +++ hdparm-6.0.ebuild 2005-04-18 13:42:11.000000000 +0200 @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ DESCRIPTION="Utility to change hard drive performance parameters" HOMEPAGE="http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/system/hardware/" -SRC_URI="http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/system/hardware/${P}.tar.gz" +SRC_URI="http://freshmeat.net/redir/hdparm/4062/url_tgz/${P}.tar.gz" LICENSE="as-is" SLOT="0"
Hi, woah... those guys are really fast. Now there seems to be a SF-project for hdparm which can be found at http://sourceforge.net/projects/hdparm/ hdparm-6.1 - fix BLKGETSIZE bug introduced in 6.0 Poly
bumped to 6.1
