From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 7 May 2002 10:04:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 7 May 2002 10:04:43 -0400 Received: from ns.suse.de ([213.95.15.193]:57608 "HELO Cantor.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Tue, 7 May 2002 10:04:39 -0400 Date: Tue, 7 May 2002 16:04:35 +0200 From: Dave Jones To: Mikael Pettersson Cc: Martin Dalecki , Anton Altaparmakov , Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.5.14 IDE 57 Message-ID: <20020507160435.R22215@suse.de> Mail-Followup-To: Dave Jones , Mikael Pettersson , Martin Dalecki , Anton Altaparmakov , Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20020507140736.022aed90@pop.cus.cam.ac.uk> <3CD7C9F1.2000407@evision-ventures.com> <15575.56603.518181.850621@kim.it.uu.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 03:56:43PM +0200, Mikael Pettersson wrote: > hdparm -i requires root privs. hdparm itself doesn't, but you must be able to read /dev/hd* Some distros have this owned by group 'disk' for eg. Adding yourself as a member of this group should allow you to use hdparm without becoming root. -- | Dave Jones. http://www.codemonkey.org.uk | SuSE Labs