[ITP] hdparm 6.9

Reini Urban rurban@x-ray.at
Wed Feb 28 23:22:00 GMT 2007


Christian Franke schrieb:
> I would like to contribute my Cygwin port of hdparm.
> 
> Hdparm (http://sourceforge.net/projects/hdparm) is a Linux tool to 
> get/set ATA/SATA drive parameters and driver settings.
> 
> A HDIO_DRIVE_CMD ioctl emulation layer is used to provide the drive 
> related command subset of hdparm on Windows.
> It should work on XP SP2 and 2003 if driver provides ATA_PASS_THROUGH. 
> It also supports 2000 and XP SP1 if undocumented IDE_PASS_THROUGH is 
> available.
> 
> http://franke.dvrdns.org/cygwin/release/hdparm/hdparm-6.9-1.tar.bz2
> http://franke.dvrdns.org/cygwin/release/hdparm/hdparm-6.9-1-src.tar.bz2
> http://franke.dvrdns.org/cygwin/release/hdparm/setup.hint

packaging and package looks fine.
GTG

Even -M (acoustic settings) does work, impressive port.
One might want to note somewhere that it requires Administrator rights. 
(which is good)
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