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1 hdparm-9.65: 2 - Another --Istdin fix: cannot read log pages when no device specified 3 hdparm-9.64: 4 - fix truncated output buf with --Istdin 5 hdparm-9.63: 6 - new --sanitize-overwrite-passes flag, courtesy Michal Grzedzicki. 7 - "Plurals patch" from Martin Guy. 8 hdparm-9.62: 9 - Work around unexpected sign-extending of left-shifted unsigned values by gcc 10 hdparm-9.61: 11 - fixes for --set-sector-size and reporting of physical/logical sector sizes, courtesy of Western Digital. 12 hdparm-9.60: 13 - support for ioSafe Solo with jMicron bridge, courtesy Matthias-Christian Ott. 14 hdparm-9.59: 15 - decode more bits from id[69], courtesy Adrián Kálazi. 16 - allow passing of custom LDFLAGS from the environment. 17 - add new "static" target. 18 - fix --dco-identify max sectors, courtesy of Paul Sultana. 19 - get rid of leftover "unknown" variables from identify.c 20 - fixed return values from get_log_page_data(). 21 hdparm-9.58: 22 - fix bug from 9.57 whereby -I for non-ATA might segfault. 23 hdparm-9.57: 24 - added --set-sector-size flag to change logical sector size. 25 - fixed handling of non-512 byte logical sectors in several places. 26 - fixed possibility of infinite loop in sysfs_find_attr_file_path(). 27 - respect the "quiet" flag in a few more places. 28 - skip "full device" checks for character devices (eg. /dev/sg*). 29 - don't issue READ_LOG_EXT commands unless the drive claims to support them. 30 - work around kernel/sysfs bug for "start" lba. 31 hdparm-9.56: 32 - fixed byte order for --Istdout so that --Istdin can grok it 33 - added --Iraw for raw binary output of IDENTIFY data to a file 34 hdparm-9.55: 35 - added #include <sys/sysmacros.h> for major()/minor() macros 36 hdparm-9.54: 37 - Partial revert of Jmicron changes, from Jan Friesse. 38 hdparm-9.53: 39 - Read Drive Capacity fixes from Iestyn Walters. 40 - SET MAX ADDRESS fixes from Tom Yan <tom.ty89@gmail.com>. 41 - added --security-prompt-for-password to --security-help output. 42 - fwdownload changes from Jihoon Lee. 43 hdparm-9.52: 44 - Jmicron SATA-USB bridge support from Jan Friesse <jfriesse@gmail.com>. 45 hdparm-9.51: 46 - add support for Jmicron USB-SATA bridges, courtesy Jan Friesse <jfriesse@gmail.com>. 47 hdparm-9.51: 48 - New --security-prompt-for-password flag for use with the various --security- actions. 49 - Makefile tweak from Mike Frysinger. 50 - fix spelling/typos in man page and "removable", courtesy of Alex Mestiashvili. 51 - fix spelling/typos in --sanitize-crypto-scramble, courtesy of Tom Yan. 52 - fix NULL password handling in --security-unlock, courtesy of Tom Yan. 53 hdparm-9.50: 54 - minor fixes for sanitize device stuff. 55 hdparm-9.49: 56 - add ACS-3 overprovisioning support, courtesy of Intel. 57 - fix bug in display of security section and use updated erase-time values from ACS-3, courtesy of Patrick Higgins. 58 - increase timeout on fwdownload to 2 minutes, courtesy of Rusy Carruth. 59 - fix bugs from devslp patch. 60 hdparm-9.48: 61 - fix bugs from devslp patch. 62 hdparm-9.47: 63 - added devslp patch (IDENTIFY word 76) from David Woodhouse. 64 - help and manpage fixes from Michal Minar. 65 hdparm-9.46: 66 - fix compilation with "musl libc". 67 - added "hex:aabbcc.." for binary security passwords. 68 - return EIO when read_big_block() fails 69 - use llabs() rather than abs() in identify.c 70 hdparm-9.45: 71 - fixed blocksize handling in fibmap code to use result from FIGETBSZ in more places (Anton Altaparmakov). 72 - fixed divide by zero exception in geom.c 73 - tidying up formatting in sgio.c 74 hdparm-9.44: 75 - changed reg_flags struct to more closely match kernel definition (Lucas Magasweran). 76 - added fwdownload mode "E" support (Rusty Carruth). 77 - fix timeouts for security-erase (again!) 78 - change display of security "supported" to handle ambiguous reporting from drives 79 - don't rely upon C-library for byte-swapping 80 - added --dco-setmax support, courtesy of Geoff Papilion. 81 hdparm-9.43 82 - rearrange flag execution so that the idle/standby/sleep "now" flags are executed last. 83 hdparm-9.42 84 - fix ordering of -S -y flags 85 - spelling, typo, and formatting fixes for manpage and others 86 - set block-count to 1 for Security commands sent via SAT (sgio) 87 - use FIGETBSZ to determine filesystem block size for fibmap -- needed for FAT 88 - fix master password revcode handling 89 - try and fix reg_flags (again!) for old IDE taskfile ioctls 90 - fixed '&&' bug in dco_identify code 91 - force sector dumps (read-sector, identify, ..) to use le16 output format 92 hdparm-9.41 93 - proper SCT identify info courtesy of Leonid Evdokimov <leon@darkk.net.ru> 94 - updated raid1ext4trim.sh-1.5 script 95 hdparm-9.40 96 - avoid HDIO_GETGEO_BIG when possible (doesn't exist in linux-2.6.xx and beyond) 97 - pad secure erase timeouts by 30minutes rather than 5minutes. 98 hdparm-9.39 99 - added -R flag to control Read-Write-Verify feature, courtesy of Gordan Bobic 100 - nuked leftover sgio.c.orig file 101 hdparm-9.38 102 - updated wiper.sh to allow all SCSI_DISK major numbers 103 - updated handing for very long SECURITY-ERASE times 104 - added -J flag for wdidle3 set/get 105 hdparm-9.37 106 - handle raid1 start_lba values, and show -1 for indeterminte raid start_lba values 107 - abort --fibmap when start_lba is indeterminate 108 - updated wiper.sh to fix a kink with hfsplus filesystems 109 - updated wiper.sh to no longer rely on the obsolete "rdev" command 110 hdparm-9.36 111 - udpated raid1ext4trim.sh script to version 1.4 112 - updated wiper.sh to support hfsplus and ntfs filesystem types, courtesy of Heiko Wegeler 113 - updated wiper.sh with new flag to enable unattended operation, and handle SIGPIPE 114 - updated manpage to indicate max sector range of 65335 for TRIM 115 hdparm-9.35 116 - third go at fixing cdb issues, fixing -B flag. Got it this time (finally). 117 hdparm-9.34 118 - fix bad/missing cdb transfer length field for IDENTIFY and some other commands 119 hdparm-9.33 120 - fix AHCI issues in sg16(): don't ask for sense_data on DATA-xfer commands 121 - fix compiler warnings on old systems 122 - fixed compilation on old systems lacking __be16 123 hdparm-9.32 124 - fix b0rked (since 9.27?) SET_FEATURES commands; eg. -B, -M, etc.. 125 hdparm-9.31 126 - fix oflags bug in do_taskfile_cmd(). 127 - change --user-master to default to "user" instead of "master", for better drive compatibility. 128 - use drive-supplied timeout (plus a little) for security-erase commands 129 - use 15 secs as default general timeout (instead of 5) 130 - ensure timeouts get passed through to sg16 correctly 131 - increment revision-code when setting master-password, rather than always using 0xff11 132 - update HPA description in manpage 133 hdparm-9.30 134 - report word[105] in -I : max 512-byte blocks of range-data per DSM/Trim command 135 - fix wiper.sh/hdparm to use only as many LBA ranges per TRIM as the drive can handle 136 - manpage / help-text cleanups from Benno Schulenberg <bensberg@justemail.net> 137 hdparm-9.29 138 - add --offset for use with -t, to get timings from middle/end of drive, 139 courtesy of Sergei Kirjanov <rewlad@gmail.com> 140 - restrict --trim-sector-ranges-stdin to small TRIM commands on most drives 141 - fix w62 bug in -I 142 - dump all data bytes with --verbose 143 - warn about bad/missing sense data, but continue regardless 144 - show in/out data[] separately with --verbose 145 - Add reporting to -I for sata3 signaling speed. 146 - force use of ATA_16 for all commands to ATAPI devices. 147 - supply a sector count of "1" for IDENTIFY commands, to satisfy buggy USB3 bridges. 148 hdparm-9.28 149 - check for EBADE for IDE/ATAPI compatibility with recent kernels 150 - always issue both methods when setting DVD speed with -E 151 - use /usr/sbin/rdev to find rootdev in wiper.sh 152 - fix reporting of Sector-0 offset, from Martin Petersen 153 - first crack at decoding the "WD Idle3" vendor-unique command (disabled by default) 154 hdparm-9.27 155 - wiper.sh updated to wiper-2.3 156 - fix definition of reg_flags in sgio.h to work with old IDE drivers again 157 hdparm-9.26 158 - wiper.sh updated to wiper-2.2 159 - zero-day bugfix for "hdparm -i" on model names with embedded blanks 160 - bugfix for --security-erase-enhanced, courtesy of Cyril.Guyot@hitachigst.com 161 - set _FILE_OFFSET_BITS in geom.c (still need to do this in hdparm.c someday) 162 - added reporting for "Deterministic read ZEROs after TRIM" feature 163 hdparm-9.25 164 - slightly tidier output from --trim-* commands 165 - restrict --trim-sector-ranges-stdin to limit from /sys/block/sd?/queue/max_sectors_kb 166 - updated wiper.sh to use --trim-sector-ranges-stdin rather than --trim-sector-ranges 167 hdparm-9.24 168 - fixed malloc() bug in --trim-sector-ranges: it was allocating half the required size (oops). 169 hdparm-9.23 170 - minor cosmetic changes in fibmap.c 171 - added --trim-sector-ranges-stdin for wiper.sh-2.0 172 - tightened up excess-args checking on a number of flags 173 - added name to version line 174 hdparm-9.22 175 - added fsync() call inside --fallocate 176 - fixed fibmap.c to work around an observed ext4 bug with FIEMAP's "LAST" flag 177 - added detailed comments to wiper.sh 178 - more rework of wiper.sh, added xfs support, added generic online support 179 - twiddled the code in geom.c slightly 180 - cosmetic changes in fibmap.c and the manpage description of --fibmap 181 - added kernel patch for compat_ioctl::fiemap support 182 hdparm-9.21 183 - fixes and (big) speedups to wiper.sh (v1.2) script 184 hdparm-9.20 185 - unified the online/offline wiper scripts into a single wiper.sh script 186 - fixed bug whereby the wiper scripts generated command-lines too long for bash 187 - fixed non-zero exit status from successful --trim-sector-ranges 188 - reimplemented --trim-sector-ranges to use sg16() directly, with aligned data 189 - allow wiper scripts to issue TRIM with up to 255 sectors of LBA-range data 190 - added kernel patch file for sil24 protocol fix, needed for wiper/TRIM 191 - cosmetic updates to the wiper scripts 192 - fixed confirmation prompt text for --trim-sector-ranges 193 - fixed manpage example for --trim-sector-ranges 194 - removed some dead code (previously #if 0'd) 195 hdparm-9.19 196 - fixed compile of fallocate.c on older systems 197 - fixed man page description of --fallocate (parameters were reversed) 198 hdparm-9.18 199 - fixed -E (set cd/dvd streaming speed) 200 - updated man page for --fallocate, indicating ext4/xfs only 201 - bumped max_sectors to 8000000 per TRIM in wiper scripts 202 - s/awk/$GAWK/ in wiper.sh.online script 203 - fixed Changelog for 9.17 204 hdparm-9.17 205 - added wiper/ subdirectory with preliminary SSD-wiper (TRIM) scripts 206 - nuked kernel_patches/ subdirectory 207 - Capitalize first word of each line of help output 208 - added ioctl(FIEMAP) support to --fibmap 209 - added --fallocate flag 210 - added --trim-sector-ranges flag 211 - removed --trim-sectors flag 212 - removed --fibmap-sector flag 213 - first cut at wiper.sh script, to trim unused space on a non-rw ext[234] filesystem 214 - embed VERSION string for easier digging out with strings(1) 215 hdparm-9.16 216 - new protocol-specific forms of --fwdownload flags 217 - added --trim-sectors flag 218 - prevent segfaults when get_identify_data() fails 219 - added full word69 features reporting for -I 220 - added BuffSize=unknown to -i 221 hdparm-9.15 222 - fix sgio.c LBA48 bugs on big-endian machines 223 - fix -m to work with libata 224 - added development snapshot of --erase-sectors (256) command (do not use) 225 - added development snapshot of --format-track (256) command (do not use) 226 hdparm-9.14 227 - display DSM determinate/indeterminate TRIM support in -I output 228 - tidy output of CFA features from -I 229 - switch back to O_RDONLY for everything, to keep Debian/udevd happy 230 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=522091 231 Note that the kernel returns EFAULT rather than EPERM from SG_IO for 232 non-root users, and *no* SG_IO functions work for non-root users now. 233 hdparm-9.13 234 - fix O_DIRECT (--direct) for arch's other than x86 235 - strip leading/trailing spaces from -i model/fwrev/serno strings 236 hdparm-9.12 237 - added logical/physical sector size reporting 238 - updated -I output with SATA-2.6 additions 239 - support APM level retrieval with -B flag 240 - updated -C output to match ATA8 241 - added "form factor" and "rotation" display to -I, courtesy of Martin K.Petersen. 242 hdparm-9.11 243 - switch back to ATA_16 by default: required by libata for ATAPI devices 244 - add --prefer-ata12 to force use of ATA_12 when needed (some USB enclosures) 245 hdparm-9.10 246 - try and improve CF card detection 247 - fix display of mwdma modes 3,4 for CF cards 248 hdparm-9.9 249 - recalculate cyls when kernel returns a truncated value 250 hdparm-9.8 251 - fix -N to correctly use top 4 LBA bits on non-LBA48 drives 252 hdparm-9.7 253 - FIX RATHER NASTY LBA48/LBA28 CONFUSION BUGS 254 - use ATA_12 by default (helps USB), ATA_16 only when needed for LBA48 255 hdparm-9.6 256 - fix -N for 1.5TB drives (from Justin Maggard) 257 hdparm-9.5 258 - byteswap ID strings for fwdownload workarounds 259 - Makefile fixes for $(STRIP) from Wolfram Sang 260 hdparm-9.4 261 - nuked --fwdownload80 in favour of model-specific workarounds 262 - use mlock() instead of MAP_POPULATE in fwdownload.c 263 - issue SET_STREAMING command as part of -E (for newer CD/DVD drives) 264 courtesy of Thomas Orgis <thomas@orgis.org> 265 and Thomas Fritzsche" <tf@noto.de>. 266 hdparm-9.3 267 - new --idle-immediate and --idle-unload commands 268 hdparm-9.2 269 - fix WWN output from -I 270 hdparm-9.1 271 - tidy up output from --dco-identify, add more info to manpage 272 - add kernel (device driver) bug detection/warning to -N output 273 hdparm-9.0 274 - update debian directory contents 275 - add --dco-freeze, --dco-identify, --dco-restore flags 276 - fix sgio.c to be more clever around the lba28 boundary 277 - add supposedly obsolete "cache/buffer size" reporting to -I 278 - new --fwdownload flag 279 - fix error reporting from sg16(). 280 - dump entire returned sense desc[] in sgio.c with --verbose 281 hdparm-8.9 282 - support /sys/block symlinks (some kernels seem to have those). 283 hdparm-8.8 284 - fix -r, -a so that they display their values again (duh). 285 - define BLKGETSIZE64 locally to avoid broken system headers that use u64 with it. 286 - update man page to indicate that --security-* flags must be standalone 287 - fix -Q to permit querying queue_depth (was broken in v8.7). 288 hdparm-8.7 289 - fixes to permit building against older kernels which lack SG_IO 290 - added build script for empeg systems 291 - removed -R, -U flags: kernel support is broken and being removed 292 - fixed IO_support output 293 - prevent error messages from default flags 294 - added sysfs.c, geom.c, fibmap.c 295 - use sysfs for device start_lba/nsectors values whereever possible (for >= 2TB drives) 296 - new standalone --fibmap and --fibmap-sector flags 297 - converted -Q to access the queue_depth attribute from sysfs (now works for SATA!) 298 - fixed readonly issue with optical drives that some people noticed 299 hdparm-8.6 300 - add partition safeguards to r/w sector and make_bad_sector 301 hdparm-8.5 302 - fix u8->u16 bug in security commands for all of 8.x series, Christian Franke 303 - try and quiet errors from flush_buffer_cache() 304 hdparm-8.4 305 - oops: v8.3 broke --write-sector. Fix it again. 306 hdparm-8.3 307 - fixed -i display for udma6 308 - try and exit with errno on fail paths, from Ladislav Michnovic 309 hdparm-8.2 310 - clear feat register for safety with SET_MAX_ADDRESS command 311 - add note to manpage regarding possible -N transient failures 312 - IDE_TASKFILE bug fixes and cleanups: works with old IDE driver now 313 - fix misreporting of dma modes on some SATA-ATAPI bridged drives 314 hdparm-8.1 315 - fixed -U parameter bug 316 - added ATA8 minor revision info to -I, courtesy of chrfranke 317 - added WorldWideNumber to -I, courtesy of Raksac 318 hdparm-8.0 319 - added --make-bad-sector to deliberately create a media error 320 - added --write-sector (aka. --repair-sector) to repair a media error 321 - added --read-sector to test for a media error 322 - Makefile dependency tweaks 323 - added -N (get/set max address/HPA) flag, courtesy of Jakub Bogusz 324 - fixed LBAsects output from -i to use LBA48 values when available 325 - fixed alternate opcode for SLEEPNOW 326 - lots of changes/fixes to sgio.c to support more commands 327 - add detection of buggy Sandisk 16MB CF card 328 - fixed tf_to_lba() bug, courtesy of Jakub Bogusz 329 hdparm-7.7 330 - fixed bug whereby old data was shown after settings changed (eg. with -W0) 331 - removed old notes about a "correction factor" from man page -tT descriptions 332 - retry open with O_RDONLY if O_RDWR fails with errno==EROFS 333 hdparm-7.6 334 - added -F flag to flush on-drive write cache buffer 335 - replaced use of shm* functions with of mmap()/mlock() 336 - removed gcc -Wextra flag --> unsupported on Debian Sarge 337 - re-allow use of --security-freeze in combination with other flags 338 hdparm-7.5 339 - beef up warnings for -s1 flag, as people seem to be ignoring them 340 hdparm-7.4 341 - ignore ENOTTY response from DRIVE_CMD(NULL) 342 - decode CFA advanced timing information 343 hdparm-7.3 344 - fixed spelling of --drq-hsm-error in -h output 345 - fixed SG_IO CDB[2] bits for better SAT compliance 346 - fixed version number (v7.2 has "7.1" as version, doh!) 347 - added #ifdef around use of BLKGETSIZE64 348 - manpage updated 349 - flush_cache before/after -W0 action 350 - use O_RDWR instead of O_RDONLY for better SG_IO compatibility 351 hdparm-7.2 352 - tweak -C 353 - added more debug info from --verbose 354 - added --drq-hsm-error to test libata EH (VERY DANGEROUS, do not use) 355 - fixed breakage when used with old IDE driver 356 hdparm-7.1 357 - big-endian fixes for -I, --Istdin, --Istdout 358 - cody tidying in sgio.c 359 - updated help/manpage for -v 360 - marked -s1 as (DANGEROUS) 361 hdparm-7.0 362 - new command-line parser 363 - allow any chars (except 0x00) in security passwords 364 - fixed -s manpage format error 365 - updated -W manpage description 366 - major internal rework in hdparm.c 367 - added SET_FEATURES subcommand 0x07 to the -s0 sequence 368 (the kernel will eventually have to do this automatically) 369 - fixed duplicate display of udma modes 3,4,5 with -i 370 - added Timed-Command-Completion (TLC) data for -I 371 - added support for SG_IO (SAT) ATA_16 command transport 372 - ignore case for longargs (eg. --istdout or --Istdout) 373 - remove dependencies on <linux/hdreg.h> 374 - added query wcache (-W) 375 - enhanced query acoustic (-M) 376 - added kernel_patches directory with patches for ATAPI support 377 hdparm-6.9 378 - added -s flag to control power-up in standby 379 (thanks to chrfranke) 380 - make --Istdin more robust 381 - added -I recognition of SMART Command Transport (SCT) 382 (thanks to chrfranke). 383 - fix X2 over-reporting of -T results 384 - add udma 3/4/5 modes to the -i results 385 hdparm-6.8 386 - improve parsing/operation of --Istdin function 387 hdparm-6.7 388 - don't default to "-v" when only new "--" longopts are used. 389 - calculate integrity word if not correct 390 - remove used code/parameter from identify() 391 - fix "(null)" strings from the "Drive conforms to" line of -I 392 - tidied up usage of prefix vars in Makefile 393 - fix bug in -C implementation 394 - new -H flag for (Hitachi) drive temperature 395 hdparm-6.6 396 - fix build for Redhat/Fedora systems. 397 - disable security commands when building on Redhat/Fedora, 398 as they lack the required data structures in the system headers. 399 hdparm-6.5 400 - fix -I bugs from version 6.4. 401 hdparm-6.4 402 - Makefile updates from Mikkel Krautz. 403 - manpage updates / corrections. 404 - fixed bug in -C code. 405 - major updates to bring -I information up to current specs. 406 hdparm-6.3 407 - added reporting of ATA revision numbers > 7 408 hdparm-6.2 409 - eliminated short form (-F) of --security-freeze flag 410 - completely revamped ATA Security Commands 411 (now they actually work sometimes) 412 courtesy of Leonard den Ottolander (a BIG thank-you!) 413 hdparm-6.1 414 - fix BLKGETSIZE bug introduced in 6.0 415 - man page clarification for -M (courtesy Stephen Gran) 416 hdparm-6.0 417 - correct usage of BLKGETSIZE64 (returns bytes instead of sectors) 418 - Added ATA Security switches (Benjamin Benz bbe[AT]heise[DOT]de) 419 hdparm-5.9 420 - fix security-mode display (Franz Lehner) 421 - fixed -W bug (Stephan Gran) 422 hdparm-5.8 423 - added HDIO_SET_WCACHE support to -W 424 - fixed double byteswap for big endian 425 - fixed %lld warnings on 64-bit architectures 426 - "hdparm -h" now goes to stdout instead of stderr 427 hdparm-5.7 428 - fixed output of NULs in -I string fields 429 - fixed big-endian -I crashes from 5.6 430 - removed remains of defunct major-number checks 431 - added support for BLKGETSIZE64 ioctl internally 432 - added --direct flag to use O_DIRECT on device open 433 - renamed -Istdin to --Istdin 434 - renamed -Istdout to --Istdout 435 - allow other flags to follow any of: -I, --Istdin, --Istdout 436 hdparm-5.6 437 - fixed reversed device names in idectl script 438 - renamed readahead variables to avoid new glibc conflicts 439 - added -Istdout flag to dump IDENTIFY data as hex 440 - removed MAJOR number checks to open up hdpar for SATA-SCSI drivers 441 hdparm-5.5 442 - added limited support for SCSI(-controlled) CDROM/optical drives 443 - incorporated various -I clean-up patches from Maciej W. Rozycki 444 - removed wordswap from capacity calculation: latest kenels already do it 445 - fixed slight issues with ATA Revision display 446 - added debian scripts from Stephan Gran 447 hdparm-5.4 448 - fixed 2.5.67 compile error (LVM_BLK_MAJOR) 449 - first attempt to support BIG_ENDIAN in identify.c 450 - converted -T and -t to use minimum timing intervals (2 and 3 seconds) 451 - fix device size overflow issue with -t 452 - hdparm -I: fixed device size output for devices with reversed endian. 453 - hdparm -i: added explanation for "*" 454 - slight formatting change for -Tt outputs 455 - fixed "(illegal value)" formatting 456 - added CCISS_MAJOR 457 - incorporated RedHat-8.0 and other patches 458 hdparm-5.3 459 - get rid of malloc() 460 - fix(?) BIG_ENDIAN problems 461 - fix -tT to work on very small drives 462 - fix -p output for parameters >= 100 463 hdparm-5.2 464 - compile fixes for latest 2.5.xx kernels 465 - moved -s from CFLAGS to LDFLAGS 466 - fixed manpage formatting error from 5.1 467 - -i was broken due to non-compatible changes in 2.5.xx 468 - the fix for -i now breaks hdparm -i for really old kernels 469 hdparm-5.1 470 - fixed segfault from -i on older drives 471 hdparm-5.0 472 - updated -I to most recent ATA6 draft standard 473 - added -Istdin to process input from /proc/ide/hd*/identify 474 - CFLAGS Makefile fix from Kevin P. Fleming 475 - -X mode names from Martin 476 - tweaked #include's for Slackware 477 - eliminate bogus "udma10" from -I output 478 - formatting fixes for -I from various people 479 - clean compile fixes from Steven Augart <steve@augart.com> 480 - allow -d parameters other than 0/1 for special uses 481 - removed busstate, acoustic, and nowerr from "-v" subset 482 - support for Pacific Digital ADMA-100i 483 hdparm-4.9 484 - fixed compile error with some kernels 485 hdparm-4.8 486 - updated -Q to take queue depth as parameter value 487 hdparm-4.7 488 - add -z option for BLKRRPART ("re-read partition table") 489 - add -Q option to turn on/off tagged queuing 490 - add -M option for acoustic feature set 491 - allow ANY value for the parameter to '-p' (user beware!) 492 - applied APM fixes from Gildas Bazin <gbazin@netcourrier.com> 493 hdparm-4.6 494 - fix version numbers, update DMA notes in manpage 495 hdparm-4.5 496 - ENDIAN tidyup, GETGEO fixes, Makefile fixes, mostly courtesy of Maciej W. Rozycki 497 hdparm-4.4 498 - add -b option, courtesy of Tim Hockin 499 hdparm-4.3 500 - display most fields as unsigned rather than signed values 501 hdparm-4.2 502 - completely new format/implementation of "-I" with much more detail 503 - code cleanups for newer libs/compilers 504 hdparm-4.1 505 - merge some changes from Andre 506 - code cleanups from Neil Macvicar and others 507 - improved output from -i for newer features 508 - incorporate RedHat-7.0 patches 509 hdparm-4.0 510 - no such release 511 hdparm-3.9 512 - added IDE_MAJOR[6-9] 513 - nuked the LBAsects display (again!) 514 hdparm-3.8 515 - fix display of drive capacity (Stephane Eranian <eranian@cello.hpl.hp.com>) 516 - new -E "set cdrom speed" option (Matthias Oster <Matthias.Oster@eikon.tum.de>) 517 - new -R and -U "(un)register hwif" options (Christian Lademann <cal@zls.de>) 518 - new contrib subdirectory with contributed scripts from users. 519 - support for display of newer PIO and DMA/UDMA modes 520 hdparm-3.7 521 - use O_NONBLOCK for open(), to handle drives with media removed 522 - make "HDIO_DRIVE_CMD failed" messages slightly more verbose 523 - get rid of "HDIO_GET_MULTCOUNT failed" from -i on non-disks 524 hdparm-3.6 525 - added new -V (version) option 526 - removed confusing LBA "remapping" geometry calculation 527 - small fix to "-I" 528 - Courtesy of Andrzej Krzysztofowicz <ankry@green.mif.pg.gda.pl>: 529 - added support for old XT drives 530 - transfer display in kB/s rather than in MB/s for slow disks 531 - fixed -v for SCSI disks 532 - added -L to lock/unlock door of removeable harddisks 533 - added udma modes 3,4,5.. 534 - updated Makefile to use "destdir" prefix -- Ytiddo <ytiddo@dicksonstreet.com> 535 hdparm-3.5 536 - fixed compilation under older kernels 537 - fixed udma mode info under older kernels 538 hdparm-3.4 539 - added udma mode info 540 - added support for SCSI_DISK_MAJOR{0-7} 541 - fix -h (help) to show -y instead of -Y for "standby" 542 - fix display of drive SerialNo: 20 chars instead of just 8 543 - modify -C -y -Y to each try both possible command codes 544 - add interpretations for use of -X to set UltraDMA modes 545 - add -D for enable/disable drive defect-mgmt 546 hdparm-3.3 547 - add -C, -y, and -Y flags for IDE power management 548 hdparm-3.2 549 - force BLKFLSBUF after -T or -t -- kmg@barco.com 550 - fix minor -T/-t mixup in manpage -- hankedr@mail.auburn.edu 551 hdparm-3.1 552 - permit "-p" with values larger than 5 (for cmd640 readahead) 553 - updated version number on manpage (was way out of date!) 554 hdparm-3.0 555 - always touch each sector in read_big_block() -- Jon Burgess 556 - move cache timings to new -T option -- piercarl@sabi.demon.co.uk 557 hdparm-2.9: 558 - updated author's email address 559 hdparm-2.8: 560 - fixed compilation against older kernels 561 - changed "KB" to "kB" 562 - support for "-t" on "md" devices (from boris@xtalk.msk.su) 563 - removed "Estimating raw driver speed" message from "-t" 564 because it is likely very incorrect on faster systems 565 - added "-I" to re-issue IDENTIFY command to drive 566 hdparm-2.7: 567 - fixed .lsm file 568 - fixed "hdparm -c" (broken in 2.6) (kudos to clive@epos.demon.co.uk) 569 hdparm-2.6: 570 - tidied up manpage 571 - added support for HDIO_SET_PIO_MODE (kernel 1.3.61+) 572 - reduced codesize by combining fprintf's in help 573 hdparm-2.5: 574 - fixed -i display of eight character fwrev field 575 - rearranged output of -v 576 hdparm-2.4: 577 - added flag to turn on/off "using_dma" flag (kernel 1.3.22+) 578 - added warnings about CMD-640B and RZ1000 bugs to manpage ("-u1") 579 - cleaned up output from -c, added text interpretations 580 - added -c functionality to -v 581 - removed -a functionality from -v for scsi drives 582 - added -n flag for ignoring the "write error" bit from a drive 583 - moved binary from /usr/local/bin to /usr/local/sbin 584 - added support for 3rd/4th IDE interfaces 585 hdparm-2.3: 586 - added -c flag for controlling 32-bit chipset features with 1.2.9+ 587 - fixed error messages when -t used on SCSI drives 588 - fixed date on man page to read 1995 rather than 1994 (late change) 589 hdparm-2.2: 590 - fixed a memory problem in my PC, and now BLKFLSBUF seems safe again 591 - fixed "help" line for "-v" 592 hdparm-2.1: 593 - fixed formatting of DMA info line 594 - added "(DANGEROUS)" to -u,-X,-W options in "hdparm -h" 595 - changed order in which settings are applied: placed standby last 596 hdparm-2.0: 597 - added this file to the distribution 598 - added -f and -q flags to hdparm.c and hdparm.8 599 - added -N to gcc in makefile 600 - changed installation paths to /usr/local/* in makefile 601 - removed meaningless CPU% measures 602 - removed -s and -x flags 603 - added new -AKPSWXZ flags using new HDIO_DRIVE_CMD ioctl 604 - removed BLKFLSBUF ioctl from everywhere except -t 605 (there may be a kernel bug in the implementation of BLKFLSBUF 606 when used on an active (mounted rw) filesystem). 607 - most features now require (E)IDE driver v2.6 or higher 608 (ide-2.6.patch.65+.gz)