Busybox hdparm parameters

[Denys Vlasenko]

On Tuesday 29 December 2009 14:37, Pascal l wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have recently bought a multimedia hard drive which is using a 
> Linux Venus system including an old version of busybox.
> 
> In fact i want to update busybox in order to be able to use hdparm
> with the parameter -M to get/set acoustic management, but when i have compiled
> busybox 1.15.3 and launch ./busybox hdparm --help the -M option was not enabled.
> 
> Is there a reason ?

(You should ask such questions on the mailing list, not privately)

Because bbox hdparm does not support option -M.

I advice using standard hdparm. The inclusion of such a specialized
and constantly evolving tool into bbox was a mistake.
It is bound to lag behind new hdparm features.

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