Re: A bug between kernel and hdparm

Guest section DW (dwguest@win.tue.nl)
Fri, 5 Nov 1999 19:28:05 +0100


On Fri, Nov 05, 1999 at 09:10:32AM -0800, H.J. Lu wrote:

> # hdparm -i /dev/hda
> # hdparm -d1 -X 18 /dev/hda
> # hdparm -i /dev/hda
>
> will not show the DMA mode change on /dev/hda.

But the task of hdparm -i and hdparm -I is to show
the identify data returned by the disk at boot time
and right now - and nothing else.

In particular, the hdparm -i output must be constant.

Andries

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