24 What do different values of hard drive's Advanced Power Management feature (hdparm -B) affect, except spin-down? 2013-02-21T17:27:00.323

7 hdparm vs /dev/zero in hdd erase 2012-08-02T08:25:25.493

5 Why is "hdparm -w" considered dangerous? 2012-07-20T14:26:25.717

4 HDPARM Keeps giving Input/Output Error 2013-08-09T17:53:56.450

4 How to set the spin down timeout on WD Green HDDs 2014-06-21T13:06:11.497

4 HDD Power-Up in Standby: prevent from spinning up 2015-02-18T10:39:39.787

4 hdparm error: SG_IO: bad/missing sense data 2017-05-28T15:47:28.417

4 hdparm doesn't read SSD? HDIO_DRIVE_CMD(identify) failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device 2019-03-08T18:58:06.657

3 Putting an ATA storage device into PIO mode 2012-02-04T18:55:02.590

3 Using HDPARM to tune drives 2012-11-05T04:32:27.017

3 How do hdparm's -S and -B options interact? 2013-06-25T16:00:51.760

3 What is an alternative to Linux utility hdparm on Windows 8? 2014-12-26T16:27:01.247

3 Making HDD to spindown when not mounted but to keep it spinning while mounted 2016-02-01T22:15:31.823

3 hdparm: what does --dco-restore really do? 2016-12-30T00:14:09.337

2 How to run hdparm on boot in Slackware linux? 2013-01-29T17:21:56.573

2 Safe to manually spin down hard drive with hdparm? 2014-12-15T10:02:44.193

2 How identify a Virtual Hard Disk how unique in Linux? 2015-02-05T15:13:39.453

2 Mark entire SATA disk as read-only on the disk itself 2016-08-17T08:28:19.370

2 How to un freeze drive in Linux? 2016-12-29T22:15:29.773

2 Why does disabling head parking on HGST 7K1000 HDD cause read/write sounds every second (or sometimes more)? 2017-12-02T02:00:31.567

2 Why one of two HDDs wakes from sleep during the first Linux graphical login? 2018-11-01T18:01:02.473

1 slow git performance 2012-03-08T19:06:01.123

1 hdparm "Get/set IDE 32-bit IO setting" returns "IO_support =-2130557184 (???)" error 2012-03-11T07:22:44.013

1 SET_MAX_ADDRESS failed: Input/output error 2013-02-16T00:42:35.680

1 Why do I need to "hdparm -r" in order to mount a Sony camcorder read/write and why is it dangerous? 2014-04-17T15:40:32.767

1 Ubuntu 12.04 LTS - SIL3124 - Hard drive read at 2.5MB/s 2015-09-24T01:23:47.797

1 Unlock Samsung SSD 840 PRO with hdparm 2016-03-23T14:28:37.790

1 Possible USB pendrive hardware corruption 2016-10-18T17:51:57.450

1 Has --dco-restore bricked any drives in hdparm? 2017-04-16T02:23:18.203

1 HPA (Host Protected Area) disabled. Bad consequences? 2018-03-10T19:30:27.807

1 hdparm -S not working as it should 2019-03-05T09:35:34.293

1 3TB Western Digital Hard drive is showing only 2TB 2019-03-11T05:58:02.420

1 hdparm -C states the drive is in standby regardless if the drive is in standby or not 2019-03-13T10:56:09.703

0 hdparm -I does not work for logical volumes; HDIO_DRIVE_CMD(identify) failed: Invalid exchange 2013-03-15T20:43:25.070

0 Connect a ssd externally such that hdparm is fully supported 2013-10-30T19:56:32.397

0 How do I make a USB flash drive writable on Linux? 2014-01-03T18:48:09.527

0 Hard disk very slow, failing with more and more errors 2014-01-17T22:35:58.547

0 HDPARM Security Erase issue 2014-09-16T10:56:37.827

0 How do I make HDParm or equivalent settings persist in Windows? 2015-02-15T19:38:57.903

0 Partially Solved: SSD security password - stuck with an I/O Error 2016-06-12T21:20:44.893

0 Error when running 'hdparm --dco-identify' in Linux 2016-12-28T01:23:15.037

0 How do I permanently disable the APM (advanced power management) of my Hitachi hard drives? 2017-01-17T04:41:47.283

0 Can a HGST Replacement Hard Disk contain the wdidle3 parameter? 2017-12-28T09:25:02.487

0 My Crucial SSD is locked after an erase attempt and can't seem unlock even with correct password. Is there such a thing as a master password? 2018-02-28T21:52:52.037

0 SSD secure erase on RAID card (Linux) 2018-09-13T23:32:50.293

0 How to know the standby time of a disk before spinning down? 2018-09-28T08:13:37.933

0 I've used hdparm secure erase on a USB SATA drive. Is it beyond recovery now? 2018-11-25T20:04:36.933

0 How to make hdparm settings survive reboot? 2019-01-29T11:29:56.757

0 Hdparm set pasword went wrong 2019-01-31T13:29:40.030

0 blk_update_request: critical medium error, but hdparm is successful 2019-03-05T05:54:05.643

0 Unmounted HDDs waking up from standby (why?) 2019-04-24T14:13:52.760

0 How to extend "automatic" spin down time of WD Red HDD to longer than 10 minutes 2019-04-29T11:24:15.440

0 HDPARM - Reading password from a file? (Or inputting hex) 2019-05-19T22:16:32.390

0 hdparm errors: bad/missing sens data (no hdparm commands working) 2019-06-25T03:08:33.673

0 Can't set read-only mode with hdparm -r1 2019-07-09T05:34:58.963

0 hdparm APM settings not working with external hard drive 2019-11-14T09:44:59.220

0 Why is hdparm not available on Cygwin? 2019-11-24T20:13:06.630

0 Cannot issue security erase enchanced command 2019-12-19T06:53:14.483

0 Wipe the HPA and DCO using Cygwin 2020-02-27T22:13:08.243

-1 How to run hdparm at startup so that it sets apm to 254? 2013-07-28T18:46:53.660