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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
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