--- hdparm-9.3/hdparm.8.orig 2008-11-04 18:56:25.000000000 +0100 +++ hdparm-9.3/hdparm.8 2008-11-06 21:12:31.565554598 +0100 @@ -81,7 +81,9 @@ .B sleeping (lowest power mode, drive is completely shut down). The -.B -S, -y, -Y, +.BR -S , +.BR -y , +.BR -Y , and .B -Z options can be used to manipulate the IDE power modes. @@ -352,8 +354,8 @@ option can be used to find the maximum setting supported by an installed drive (look for MaxMultSect in the output). Some drives claim to support multiple mode, but lose data at some settings. -Under rare circumstances, such failures can result in -.B massive filesystem corruption. +Under rare circumstances, such failures can result in \fBmassive filesystem +corruption\fP. .TP .I --make-bad-sector Deliberately create a bad sector (aka. "media error") on the disk. @@ -569,8 +571,7 @@ .B Use this feature with caution: some drive/controller combinations do not tolerate the increased I/O latencies possible when this feature is enabled, -resulting in -.B massive filesystem corruption. +resulting in \fB massive filesystem corruption\fP. In particular, .B CMD-640B and @@ -644,7 +645,7 @@ On drives which support alternate transfer modes, .B -X can be used to switch the mode of the drive -.B only. +.BR only . Prior to changing the transfer mode, the IDE interface should be jumpered or programmed (see .B -p