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06ae0002 | 1 | --- hdparm-4.6/hdparm.8.old Tue Dec 18 22:48:23 2001 |
2 | +++ hdparm-4.6/hdparm.8 Tue Dec 18 22:54:59 2001 | |
39d50040 | 3 | @@ -67,7 +67,9 @@ |
00fccae5 | 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. | |
39d50040 | 14 | @@ -164,16 +166,17 @@ |
00fccae5 | 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 | |
39d50040 | 30 | -.b after |
00fccae5 | 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 | |
39d50040 | 35 | @@ -198,8 +201,8 @@ |
36 | flag can be used to find the maximum setting supported by an installed drive | |
00fccae5 | 37 | (look for MaxMultSect in the output). |
38 | Some drives claim to support multiple mode, but lose data at some settings. | |
39 | -Under rare circumstances, such failures can result in | |
40 | -.B massive filesystem corruption. | |
41 | +Under rare circumstances, such failures can result in \fBmassive filesystem | |
42 | +corruption\fP. | |
43 | .TP | |
44 | .I -n | |
45 | Get or set the "ignore write errors" flag in the driver. | |
39d50040 | 46 | @@ -309,8 +312,7 @@ |
47 | .B Use this feature with caution: | |
00fccae5 | 48 | some drive/controller combinations do |
49 | not tolerate the increased I/O latencies possible when this feature is enabled, | |
50 | -resulting in | |
51 | -.B massive filesystem corruption. | |
52 | +resulting in \fB massive filesystem corruption\fP. | |
53 | In particular, | |
54 | .B CMD-640B | |
55 | and | |
39d50040 | 56 | @@ -368,7 +370,7 @@ |
00fccae5 | 57 | On drives which support alternate transfer modes, |
58 | .I -X | |
59 | can be used to switch the mode of the drive | |
60 | -.I only. | |
61 | +.IR only . | |
62 | Prior to changing the transfer mode, the IDE interface should be jumpered | |
63 | or programmed (see | |
64 | .I -p |