[PATCH] hdparm utilizes shared memory for no good reason ?

[Rich Felker]

On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 04:44:25PM -0400, Paul Fox wrote:
> (mainly, i guess i'm both bugged and amused by the incongruity of
> trying to minimize the number of Kbytes consumed by a program
> whose sole purpose is to manage storage device that don't come in
> sizes less than a gigabyte anymore.)

There are plenty of old drives around and still working. Unlike modern
crap that's manufactures with the intent that it die in 3-5 years, old
5-80 meg hard drives last forever. ;)

Rich