[arch-dev-public] [signoff] hdparm 0.8.6

Aaron Griffin aaronmgriffin at gmail.com
Fri Mar 7 18:01:04 EST 2008


On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 2:10 AM, Tobias Powalowski <t.powa at gmx.de> wrote:
> Hi
>  version bump please signoff both arches
>  hdparm-8.6
>         - add partition safeguards to r/w sector and make_bad_sector
>  hdparm-8.5
>         - fix u8->u16 bug in security commands for all of 8.x series, Christian
>  Franke
>         - try and quiet errors from flush_buffer_cache()
>  hdparm-8.4
>         - oops: v8.3 broke --write-sector.  Fix it again.
>  hdparm-8.3
>         - fixed -i display for udma6
>         - try and exit with errno on fail paths, from Ladislav Michnovic
>  hdparm-8.2
>         - clear feat register for safety with SET_MAX_ADDRESS command
>         - add note to manpage regarding possible -N transient failures
>         - IDE_TASKFILE bug fixes and cleanups: works with old IDE driver now
>         - fix misreporting of dma modes on some SATA-ATAPI bridged drives
>  hdparm-8.1
>         - fixed -U parameter bug
>         - added ATA8 minor revision info to -I, courtesy of chrfranke
>         - added WorldWideNumber to -I, courtesy of Raksac
>  hdparm-8.0
>         - added --make-bad-sector to deliberately create a media error
>         - added --write-sector (aka. --repair-sector) to repair a media error
>         - added --read-sector to test for a media error
>         - Makefile dependency tweaks
>         - added -N (get/set max address/HPA) flag, courtesy of Jakub Bogusz
>         - fixed LBAsects output from -i to use LBA48 values when available
>         - fixed alternate opcode for SLEEPNOW
>         - lots of changes/fixes to sgio.c to support more commands
>         - add detection of buggy Sandisk 16MB CF card
>         - fixed tf_to_lba() bug, courtesy of Jakub Bogusz

Didn't spend a huge amount of time testing, but I'll sign off x86_64




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