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From: Mark Lord <kernel@teksavvy.com>
Subject: Re: "blocked for more than 120 secs" --> a valid situation, how to
 prevent?
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2010 01:31:35 -0400
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On 10-09-23 11:48 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
> Kyle McMartin put forth on 9/23/2010 8:37 PM:
>> On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 07:51:48PM -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
>>> ~$ man hdparm
>>>
>>
>> kyle@dreadnought ~ $ hdparm
>> hdparm - get/set hard disk parameters - version v9.27, by Mark Lord.
>>                                                         ^^^^^^^^^^^^
>> [...]
>
> Please pardon me while I wipe this egg off my face. :)
>
> My apologies Mark.  Please feel free to publicly flog me if you wish.

Chuckle.  :)

But you did manage to prompt me to remove that obsolete warning
from the --security-* commands in hdparm.  They are rather well tested
at this point in the game.

hdparm-9.31 is now released, with some fixes to --security,
and with the nasty warnings mostly removed.

Thanks!