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00fccae5 | 1 | --- hdparm.8.old Fri Mar 2 21:43:30 2001 |
2 | +++ hdparm.8 Mon Sep 10 02:41:57 2001 | |
3 | @@ -64,7 +64,9 @@ | |
4 | .B sleeping | |
5 | (lowest power mode, drive is completely shut down). | |
6 | The | |
7 | -.B -S, -y, -Y, | |
8 | +.BR -S , | |
9 | +.BR -y , | |
10 | +.BR -Y , | |
11 | and | |
12 | .B -Z | |
13 | flags can be used to manipulate the IDE power modes. | |
14 | @@ -160,16 +162,17 @@ | |
15 | .TP | |
16 | .I -L | |
17 | Set the drive's doorlock flag. Setting this to | |
18 | -.b 1 | |
19 | +.B 1 | |
20 | will lock the door mechanism of some removeable hard drives | |
21 | (eg. Syquest, ZIP, Jazz..), and setting it to | |
22 | -.b 0 will unlock the door mechanism. Normally, Linux | |
23 | +.B 0 | |
24 | +will unlock the door mechanism. Normally, Linux | |
25 | maintains the door locking mechanism automatically, depending on drive usage | |
26 | (locked whenever a filesystem is mounted). But on system shutdown, this can | |
27 | be a nuisance if the root partition is on a removeable disk, since the root | |
28 | partition is left mounted (read-only) after shutdown. So, by using this | |
29 | command to unlock the door | |
30 | --b after | |
31 | +.B after | |
32 | the root filesystem is remounted read-only, one can then remove the cartridge | |
33 | from the drive after shutdown. | |
34 | .TP | |
35 | @@ -195,7 +198,7 @@ | |
36 | (look for MaxMultSect in the output). | |
37 | Some drives claim to support multiple mode, but lose data at some settings. | |
38 | -Under rare circumstances, such failures can result in | |
39 | -.B massive filesystem corruption. | |
40 | +Under rare circumstances, such failures can result in \fBmassive filesystem | |
41 | +corruption\fP. | |
42 | .TP | |
43 | .I -n | |
44 | Get or set the "ignore write errors" flag in the driver. | |
45 | @@ -306,7 +309,6 @@ | |
46 | some drive/controller combinations do | |
47 | not tolerate the increased I/O latencies possible when this feature is enabled, | |
48 | -resulting in | |
49 | -.B massive filesystem corruption. | |
50 | +resulting in \fB massive filesystem corruption\fP. | |
51 | In particular, | |
52 | .B CMD-640B | |
53 | and | |
54 | @@ -364,7 +366,7 @@ | |
55 | On drives which support alternate transfer modes, | |
56 | .I -X | |
57 | can be used to switch the mode of the drive | |
58 | -.I only. | |
59 | +.IR only . | |
60 | Prior to changing the transfer mode, the IDE interface should be jumpered | |
61 | or programmed (see | |
62 | .I -p |