From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mark Lord Subject: hdparm-8.7 is released Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2008 17:56:58 -0400 Message-ID: <48446CAA.3050008@rtr.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from rtr.ca ([76.10.145.34]:4451 "EHLO mail.rtr.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752357AbYFBV5A (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Jun 2008 17:57:00 -0400 Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: IDE/ATA development list , Linux Kernel Version 8.7 of hdparm is now available from Sourceforge.net. This version includes a number of small fixes and the like, plus these new features: -- Uses sysfs to get device offset / size values, so it will continue to work with 2TB (and larger) drives. It falls back to the ioctl() interfaces when sysfs is unavailable. -- The -Q (queue_depth) flag now works with sysfs. This can be useful for easy tuning of SATA NCQ queue_depths, among others. -- New --fibmap flag, to dump out the extent list for a specified file. New --fibmap-sector flag, to dump out the absolute LBA of a specific sector of a file. These can be quite useful for determining suitable LBA values for fault-injection. Cheers