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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 |
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