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#. type: TH
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msgid "HDPARM"
msgstr ""

#. type: TH
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msgid "Sep 2022"
msgstr ""

#. type: TH
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msgid "Version 9.65"
msgstr ""

#. type: SH
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msgid "NAME"
msgstr ""

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msgid "hdparm - get/set SATA/IDE device parameters"
msgstr ""

#. type: SH
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msgid "SYNOPSIS"
msgstr ""

#. type: Plain text
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msgid "B<hdparm> [options] [device ...]"
msgstr ""

#. type: SH
#: archlinux debian-bookworm debian-unstable fedora-40 fedora-rawhide
#: mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6 opensuse-tumbleweed
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msgid "DESCRIPTION"
msgstr ""

#. type: Plain text
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msgid ""
"B<hdparm> provides a command line interface to various kernel interfaces "
"supported by the Linux SATA/PATA/SAS \"libata\" subsystem and the older IDE "
"driver subsystem.  Many newer (2008 and later)  USB drive enclosures now "
"also support \"SAT\" (SCSI-ATA Command Translation)  and therefore may also "
"work with hdparm.  E.g. recent WD \"Passport\" models and recent NexStar-3 "
"enclosures.  Some options may work correctly only with the latest kernels."
msgstr ""

#. type: SH
#: archlinux debian-bookworm debian-unstable fedora-40 fedora-rawhide
#: mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6 opensuse-tumbleweed
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msgid "OPTIONS"
msgstr ""

#. type: Plain text
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msgid ""
"When no options are given, B<-acdgkmur> is assumed.  For \"Get/set\" "
"options, a query without the optional parameter (e.g. -d) will query (get)  "
"the device state, and with a parameter (e.g., -d0) will set the device state."
msgstr ""

#. type: TP
#: archlinux debian-bookworm debian-unstable fedora-40 fedora-rawhide
#: mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6 opensuse-tumbleweed
#, no-wrap
msgid "I<-a>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Plain text
#: archlinux debian-bookworm debian-unstable fedora-40 fedora-rawhide
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msgid ""
"Get/set sector count for filesystem (software) read-ahead.  This is used to "
"improve performance in sequential reads of large files, by prefetching "
"additional blocks in anticipation of them being needed by the running task.  "
"Many IDE drives also have a separate built-in read-ahead function, which "
"augments this filesystem (software) read-ahead function."
msgstr ""

#. type: TP
#: archlinux debian-bookworm debian-unstable fedora-40 fedora-rawhide
#: mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6 opensuse-tumbleweed
#, no-wrap
msgid "I<-A>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Plain text
#: archlinux fedora-40 fedora-rawhide mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6
#: opensuse-tumbleweed
msgid ""
"Get/set the IDE drive\\'s read-lookahead feature (usually ON by default).  "
"Usage: B<-A0> (disable) or B<-A1> (enable)."
msgstr ""

#. type: TP
#: archlinux debian-bookworm debian-unstable fedora-40 fedora-rawhide
#: mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6 opensuse-tumbleweed
#, no-wrap
msgid "I<-b>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Plain text
#: archlinux debian-bookworm debian-unstable fedora-40 fedora-rawhide
#: mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6 opensuse-tumbleweed
msgid "Get/set bus state."
msgstr ""

#. type: TP
#: archlinux debian-bookworm debian-unstable fedora-40 fedora-rawhide
#: mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6 opensuse-tumbleweed
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msgid "I<-B>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Plain text
#: archlinux debian-bookworm debian-unstable fedora-40 fedora-rawhide
#: mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6 opensuse-tumbleweed
msgid ""
"Get/set Advanced Power Management feature, if the drive supports it. A low "
"value means aggressive power management and a high value means better "
"performance.  Possible settings range from values 1 through 127 (which "
"permit spin-down), and values 128 through 254 (which do not permit spin-"
"down).  The highest degree of power management is attained with a setting of "
"1, and the highest I/O performance with a setting of 254.  A value of 255 "
"tells hdparm to disable Advanced Power Management altogether on the drive "
"(not all drives support disabling it, but most do)."
msgstr ""

#. type: TP
#: archlinux debian-bookworm debian-unstable fedora-40 fedora-rawhide
#: mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6 opensuse-tumbleweed
#, no-wrap
msgid "I<-c>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Plain text
#: archlinux debian-bookworm debian-unstable fedora-40 fedora-rawhide
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msgid ""
"Get/set (E)IDE 32-bit I/O support.  A numeric parameter can be used to "
"enable/disable 32-bit I/O support.  Currently supported values include B<0> "
"to disable 32-bit I/O support, B<1> to enable 32-bit data transfers, and "
"B<3> to enable 32-bit data transfers with a special B<sync> sequence "
"required by many chipsets.  The value B<3> works with nearly all 32-bit IDE "
"chipsets, but incurs slightly more overhead.  Note that \"32-bit\" refers to "
"data transfers across a PCI or VLB bus to the interface card only; all "
"(E)IDE drives still have only a 16-bit connection over the ribbon cable from "
"the interface card."
msgstr ""

#. type: TP
#: archlinux debian-bookworm debian-unstable fedora-40 fedora-rawhide
#: mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6 opensuse-tumbleweed
#, no-wrap
msgid "I<-C>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Plain text
#: archlinux debian-bookworm debian-unstable fedora-40 fedora-rawhide
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msgid ""
"Check the current IDE power mode status, which will always be one of "
"B<unknown> (drive does not support this command), B<active/idle> (normal "
"operation), B<standby> (low power mode, drive has spun down), or B<sleeping> "
"(lowest power mode, drive is completely shut down).  The B<-S, -y, -Y,> and "
"B<-Z> options can be used to manipulate the IDE power modes."
msgstr ""

#. type: TP
#: archlinux debian-bookworm debian-unstable fedora-40 fedora-rawhide
#: mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6 opensuse-tumbleweed
#, no-wrap
msgid "I<-d>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Plain text
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msgid ""
"Get/set the \"using_dma\" flag for this drive.  This option now works with "
"most combinations of drives and PCI interfaces which support DMA and which "
"are known to the kernel IDE driver.  It is also a good idea to use the "
"appropriate B<-X> option in combination with B<-d1> to ensure that the drive "
"itself is programmed for the correct DMA mode, although most BIOSs should do "
"this for you at boot time.  Using DMA nearly always gives the best "
"performance, with fast I/O throughput and low CPU usage.  But there are at "
"least a few configurations of chipsets and drives for which DMA does not "
"make much of a difference, or may even slow things down (on really messed up "
"hardware!).  Your mileage may vary."
msgstr ""

#. type: TP
#: archlinux debian-bookworm debian-unstable fedora-40 fedora-rawhide
#: mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6 opensuse-tumbleweed
#, no-wrap
msgid "I<--dco-freeze>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Plain text
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#: mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6 opensuse-tumbleweed
msgid ""
"DCO stands for Device Configuration Overlay, a way for vendors to "
"selectively disable certain features of a drive.  The B<--dco-freeze> option "
"will freeze/lock the current drive configuration, thereby preventing "
"software (or malware)  from changing any DCO settings until after the next "
"power-on reset."
msgstr ""

#. type: TP
#: archlinux debian-bookworm debian-unstable fedora-40 fedora-rawhide
#: mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6 opensuse-tumbleweed
#, no-wrap
msgid "I<--dco-identify>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Plain text
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msgid ""
"Query and dump information regarding drive configuration settings which can "
"be disabled by the vendor or OEM installer.  These settings show "
"capabilities of the drive which might be disabled by the vendor for "
"\"enhanced compatibility\".  When disabled, they are otherwise hidden and "
"will not show in the B<-I> identify output.  For example, system vendors "
"sometimes disable 48_bit addressing on large drives, for compatibility (and "
"loss of capacity)  with a specific BIOS.  In such cases, B<--dco-identify> "
"will show that the drive is 48_bit capable, but B<-I> will not show it, and "
"nor will the drive accept 48_bit commands."
msgstr ""

#. type: TP
#: archlinux debian-bookworm debian-unstable fedora-40 fedora-rawhide
#: mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6 opensuse-tumbleweed
#, no-wrap
msgid "I<--dco-restore>"
msgstr ""

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msgid ""
"Reset all drive settings, features, and accessible capacities back to "
"factory defaults and full capabilities.  This command will fail if DCO is "
"frozen/locked, or if a B<-Np> maximum size restriction has also been set.  "
"This is B<EXTREMELY DANGEROUS> and will very likely cause massive loss of "
"data.  B<DO NOT USE THIS COMMAND.>"
msgstr ""

#. type: TP
#: archlinux debian-bookworm debian-unstable fedora-40 fedora-rawhide
#: mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6 opensuse-tumbleweed
#, no-wrap
msgid "I<--direct>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Plain text
#: archlinux fedora-40 fedora-rawhide mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6
#: opensuse-tumbleweed
msgid ""
"Use the kernel\\'s \"O_DIRECT\" flag when performing a B<-t> timing test.  "
"This bypasses the page cache, causing the reads to go directly from the "
"drive into hdparm's buffers, using so-called \"raw\" I/O.  In many cases, "
"this can produce results that appear much faster than the usual page cache "
"method, giving a better indication of raw device and driver performance."
msgstr ""

#. type: TP
#: archlinux debian-bookworm debian-unstable fedora-40 fedora-rawhide
#: mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6 opensuse-tumbleweed
#, no-wrap
msgid "I<--drq-hsm-error>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Plain text
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msgid ""
"B<VERY DANGEROUS, DON'T EVEN THINK ABOUT USING IT.> This option causes "
"hdparm to issue an IDENTIFY command to the kernel, but incorrectly marked as "
"a \"non-data\" command.  This results in the drive being left with its "
"DataReQust(DRQ) line \"stuck\" high.  This confuses the kernel drivers, and "
"may crash the system immediately with massive data loss.  The option exists "
"to help in testing and fortifying the kernel against similar real-world "
"drive malfunctions.  B<VERY DANGEROUS, DO NOT USE!!>"
msgstr ""

#. type: TP
#: archlinux debian-bookworm debian-unstable fedora-40 fedora-rawhide
#: mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6 opensuse-tumbleweed
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msgid "I<-D>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Plain text
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#: mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6 opensuse-tumbleweed
msgid ""
"Enable/disable the on-drive defect management feature, whereby the drive "
"firmware tries to automatically manage defective sectors by relocating them "
"to \"spare\" sectors reserved by the factory for such.  Control of this "
"feature via the B<-D> option is not supported for most modern drives since "
"ATA-4; thus this command may fail."
msgstr ""

#. type: TP
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#: mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6 opensuse-tumbleweed
#, no-wrap
msgid "I<-E>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Plain text
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#: mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6 opensuse-tumbleweed
msgid ""
"Set cd/dvd drive speed.  This is NOT necessary for regular operation, as the "
"drive will automatically switch speeds on its own.  But if you want to play "
"with it, just supply a speed number after the option, usually a number like "
"2 or 4.  This can be useful in some cases, though, to smooth out DVD video "
"playback."
msgstr ""

#. type: TP
#: archlinux debian-bookworm debian-unstable fedora-40 fedora-rawhide
#: mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6 opensuse-tumbleweed
#, no-wrap
msgid "I<-f>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Plain text
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msgid ""
"Sync and flush the buffer cache for the device on exit.  This operation is "
"also performed internally as part of the B<-t> and B<-T> timings and other "
"options."
msgstr ""

#. type: TP
#: archlinux debian-bookworm debian-unstable fedora-40 fedora-rawhide
#: mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6 opensuse-tumbleweed
#, no-wrap
msgid "I<--fallocate>"
msgstr ""

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msgid ""
"This option currently works only on ext4 and xfs filesystem types.  When "
"used, this must be the only option given.  It requires two parameters: the "
"desired file size in kilo-bytes (byte count divided by 1024), followed by "
"the pathname for the new file.  It will create a new file of the specified "
"size, but without actually having to write any data to the file.  This will "
"normally complete very quickly, and without thrashing the storage device."
msgstr ""

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msgid "E.g. Create a 10KByte file: B<hdparm --fallocate 10 temp_file>"
msgstr ""

#. type: TP
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msgid "I<--fibmap>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Plain text
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msgid ""
"When used, this must be the only option given.  It requires a file path as a "
"parameter, and will print out a list of the block extents (sector ranges)  "
"occupied by that file on disk.  Sector numbers are given as absolute LBA "
"numbers, referenced from sector 0 of the physical device rather than from "
"the partition or filesystem.  This information can then be used for a "
"variety of purposes, such as examining the degree of fragmenation of larger "
"files, or determining appropriate sectors to deliberately corrupt during "
"fault-injection testing procedures."
msgstr ""

#. type: Plain text
#: archlinux fedora-40 fedora-rawhide mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6
#: opensuse-tumbleweed
msgid ""
"This option uses the new FIEMAP (file extent map) ioctl() when available, "
"and falls back to the older FIBMAP (file block map) ioctl() otherwise.  Note "
"that FIBMAP suffers from a 32-bit block-number interface, and thus not work "
"beyond 8TB or 16TB.  FIBMAP is also very slow, and does not deal well with "
"preallocated uncommitted extents in ext4/xfs filesystems, unless a sync() is "
"done before using this option."
msgstr ""

#. type: TP
#: archlinux debian-bookworm debian-unstable fedora-40 fedora-rawhide
#: mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6 opensuse-tumbleweed
#, no-wrap
msgid "I<--fwdownload>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Plain text
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msgid ""
"When used, this should be the only option given.  It requires a file path "
"immediately after the option, indicating where the new drive firmware should "
"be read from.  The contents of this file will be sent to the drive using the "
"(S)ATA B<DOWNLOAD MICROCODE> command, using either transfer protocol 7 "
"(entire file at once), or, if the drive supports it, transfer protocol 3 "
"(segmented download).  This command is B<EXTREMELY DANGEROUS> and could "
"destroy both the drive and all data on it.  B<DO NOT USE THIS COMMAND.> The "
"B<--fwdownload-mode3> , B<--fwdownload-mode3-max> , and B<--fwdownload-"
"mode7> variations on basic B<--fwdownload> allow overriding automatic "
"protocol detection in favour of forcing hdparm to use a specific transfer "
"protocol, for testing purposes only."
msgstr ""

#. type: TP
#: archlinux debian-bookworm debian-unstable fedora-40 fedora-rawhide
#: mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6 opensuse-tumbleweed
#, no-wrap
msgid "I<-F>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Plain text
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#: mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6 opensuse-tumbleweed
msgid ""
"Flush the on-drive write cache buffer (older drives may not implement this)."
msgstr ""

#. type: TP
#: archlinux debian-bookworm debian-unstable fedora-40 fedora-rawhide
#: mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6 opensuse-tumbleweed
#, no-wrap
msgid "I<-g>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Plain text
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#: mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6 opensuse-tumbleweed
msgid ""
"Display the drive geometry (cylinders, heads, sectors), the size (in "
"sectors) of the device, and the starting offset (in sectors) of the device "
"from the beginning of the drive."
msgstr ""

#. type: TP
#: archlinux debian-bookworm debian-unstable fedora-40 fedora-rawhide
#: mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6 opensuse-tumbleweed
#, no-wrap
msgid "I<-h>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Plain text
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#: mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6 opensuse-tumbleweed
msgid "Display terse usage information (help)."
msgstr ""

#. type: TP
#: archlinux debian-bookworm debian-unstable fedora-40 fedora-rawhide
#: mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6 opensuse-tumbleweed
#, no-wrap
msgid "I<-H>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Plain text
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#: mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6 opensuse-tumbleweed
msgid ""
"Read the temperature from some (mostly Hitachi) drives.  Also reports if the "
"temperature is within operating condition range (this may not be reliable). "
"Does not cause the drive to spin up if idle."
msgstr ""

#. type: TP
#: archlinux debian-bookworm debian-unstable fedora-40 fedora-rawhide
#: mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6 opensuse-tumbleweed
#, no-wrap
msgid "I<-i>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Plain text
#: archlinux debian-bookworm debian-unstable fedora-40 fedora-rawhide
#: mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6 opensuse-tumbleweed
msgid ""
"Display the identification info which the kernel drivers (IDE, libata)  have "
"stored from boot/configuration time.  This may differ from the current "
"information obtainable directly from the drive itself with the B<-I> "
"option.  The data returned may or may not be current, depending on activity "
"since booting the system.  For a more detailed interpretation of the "
"identification info, refer to I<AT Attachment Interface for Disk Drives,> "
"ANSI ASC X3T9.2 working draft, revision 4a, April 19/93, and later editions."
msgstr ""

#. type: TP
#: archlinux debian-bookworm debian-unstable fedora-40 fedora-rawhide
#: mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6 opensuse-tumbleweed
#, no-wrap
msgid "I<--idle-immediate>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Plain text
#: archlinux debian-bookworm debian-unstable fedora-40 fedora-rawhide
#: mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6 opensuse-tumbleweed
msgid ""
"Issue an ATA IDLE_IMMEDIATE command, to put the drive into a lower power "
"state.  Usually the device remains spun-up."
msgstr ""

#. type: TP
#: archlinux debian-bookworm debian-unstable fedora-40 fedora-rawhide
#: mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6 opensuse-tumbleweed
#, no-wrap
msgid "I<--idle-unload>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Plain text
#: archlinux debian-bookworm debian-unstable fedora-40 fedora-rawhide
#: mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6 opensuse-tumbleweed
msgid ""
"Issue an ATA IDLE_IMMEDIATE_WITH_UNLOAD command, to unload or park the heads "
"and put the drive into a lower power state.  Usually the device remains spun-"
"up."
msgstr ""

#. type: TP
#: archlinux debian-bookworm debian-unstable fedora-40 fedora-rawhide
#: mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6 opensuse-tumbleweed
#, no-wrap
msgid "I<-I>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Plain text
#: archlinux debian-bookworm debian-unstable fedora-40 fedora-rawhide
#: mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6 opensuse-tumbleweed
msgid ""
"Request identification info directly from the drive, which is displayed in a "
"new expanded format with considerably more detail than with the older B<-i> "
"option."
msgstr ""

#. type: TP
#: archlinux debian-bookworm debian-unstable fedora-40 fedora-rawhide
#: mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6 opensuse-tumbleweed
#, no-wrap
msgid "I<--Iraw E<lt>pathnameE<gt>>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Plain text
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#: mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6 opensuse-tumbleweed
msgid ""
"This option dumps the drive's identify data in raw binary to the specified "
"file."
msgstr ""

#. type: TP
#: archlinux debian-bookworm debian-unstable fedora-40 fedora-rawhide
#: mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6 opensuse-tumbleweed
#, no-wrap
msgid "I<--Istdin>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Plain text
#: archlinux debian-bookworm debian-unstable fedora-40 fedora-rawhide
#: mageia-cauldron opensuse-tumbleweed
msgid ""
"This is a special variation on the B<-I> option, which accepts a drive "
"identification block as standard input instead of using a /dev/hd* "
"parameter.  The format of this block must be B<exactly> the same as that "
"found in the /proc/ide/*/hd*/identify \"files\", or that produced by the B<--"
"Istdout> option described below.  This variation is designed for use with "
"collected \"libraries\" of drive identification information, and can also be "
"used on ATAPI drives which may give media errors with the standard "
"mechanism.  When B<--Istdin> is used, it must be the *only* parameter "
"given.  Note that some information will be incomplete, as the drive LOG "
"PAGES are unavailable when B<--Istdin> is used."
msgstr ""

#. type: TP
#: archlinux debian-bookworm debian-unstable fedora-40 fedora-rawhide
#: mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6 opensuse-tumbleweed
#, no-wrap
msgid "I<--Istdout>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Plain text
#: archlinux debian-bookworm debian-unstable fedora-40 fedora-rawhide
#: mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6 opensuse-tumbleweed
msgid ""
"This option dumps the drive's identify data in hex to stdout, in a format "
"similar to that from /proc/ide/*/identify, and suitable for later use with "
"the B<--Istdin> option."
msgstr ""

#. type: TP
#: archlinux debian-bookworm debian-unstable fedora-40 fedora-rawhide
#: mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6 opensuse-tumbleweed
#, no-wrap
msgid "I<-J>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Plain text
#: archlinux debian-bookworm debian-unstable fedora-40 fedora-rawhide
#: mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6 opensuse-tumbleweed
msgid ""
"Get/set the Western Digital (WD) Green Drive's \"idle3\" timeout value.  "
"This timeout controls how often the drive parks its heads and enters a low "
"power consumption state.  The factory default is eight (8) seconds, which is "
"a very poor choice for use with Linux.  Leaving it at the default will "
"result in hundreds of thousands of head load/unload cycles in a very short "
"period of time.  The drive mechanism is only rated for 300,000 to 1,000,000 "
"cycles, so leaving it at the default could result in premature failure, not "
"to mention the performance impact of the drive often having to wake-up "
"before doing routine I/O."
msgstr ""

#. type: Plain text
#: archlinux debian-bookworm debian-unstable fedora-40 fedora-rawhide
#: mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6 opensuse-tumbleweed
msgid ""
"WD supply a WDIDLE3.EXE DOS utility for tweaking this setting, and you "
"should use that program instead of hdparm if at all possible.  The reverse-"
"engineered implementation in hdparm is not as complete as the original "
"official program, even though it does seem to work on at a least a few "
"drives.  A full power cycle is required for any change in setting to take "
"effect, regardless of which program is used to tweak things."
msgstr ""

#. type: Plain text
#: archlinux debian-bookworm debian-unstable fedora-40 fedora-rawhide
#: mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6 opensuse-tumbleweed
msgid ""
"A setting of 30 seconds is recommended for Linux use.  Permitted values are "
"from 8 to 12 seconds, and from 30 to 300 seconds in 30-second increments.  "
"Specify a value of zero (0) to disable the WD idle3 timer completely (NOT "
"RECOMMENDED!)."
msgstr ""

#. type: TP
#: archlinux debian-bookworm debian-unstable fedora-40 fedora-rawhide
#: mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6 opensuse-tumbleweed
#, no-wrap
msgid "I<-k>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Plain text
#: archlinux debian-bookworm debian-unstable fedora-40 fedora-rawhide
#: mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6 opensuse-tumbleweed
msgid ""
"Get/set the \"keep_settings_over_reset\" flag for the drive.  When this flag "
"is set, the drive will preserve the B<-dmu> settings over a soft reset, (as "
"done during the error recovery sequence).  This option defaults to off, to "
"prevent drive reset loops which could be caused by combinations of B<-dmu> "
"settings.  The B<-k> option should therefore only be set after one has "
"achieved confidence in correct system operation with a chosen set of "
"configuration settings.  In practice, all that is typically necessary to "
"test a configuration (prior to using -k) is to verify that the drive can be "
"read/written, and that no error logs (kernel messages) are generated in the "
"process (look in /var/log/messages on most systems)."
msgstr ""

#. type: TP
#: archlinux debian-bookworm debian-unstable fedora-40 fedora-rawhide
#: mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6 opensuse-tumbleweed
#, no-wrap
msgid "I<-K>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Plain text
#: archlinux fedora-40 fedora-rawhide mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6
#: opensuse-tumbleweed
msgid ""
"Set the drive\\'s \"keep_features_over_reset\" flag.  Setting this enables "
"the drive to retain the settings for B<-APSWXZ> over a soft reset (as done "
"during the error recovery sequence).  Not all drives support this feature."
msgstr ""

#. type: TP
#: archlinux debian-bookworm debian-unstable fedora-40 fedora-rawhide
#: mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6 opensuse-tumbleweed
#, no-wrap
msgid "I<-L>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Plain text
#: archlinux fedora-40 fedora-rawhide mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6
#: opensuse-tumbleweed
msgid ""
"Set the drive\\'s doorlock flag.  Setting this to B<1> will lock the door "
"mechanism of some removable hard drives (e.g. Syquest, ZIP, Jazz..), and "
"setting it to B<0> will unlock the door mechanism.  Normally, Linux "
"maintains the door locking mechanism automatically, depending on drive usage "
"(locked whenever a filesystem is mounted).  But on system shutdown, this can "
"be a nuisance if the root partition is on a removable disk, since the root "
"partition is left mounted (read-only) after shutdown.  So, by using this "
"command to unlock the door B<after> the root filesystem is remounted read-"
"only, one can then remove the cartridge from the drive after shutdown."
msgstr ""

#. type: TP
#: archlinux debian-bookworm debian-unstable fedora-40 fedora-rawhide
#: mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6 opensuse-tumbleweed
#, no-wrap
msgid "I<-m>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Plain text
#: archlinux fedora-40 fedora-rawhide mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6
#: opensuse-tumbleweed
msgid ""
"Get/set sector count for multiple sector I/O on the drive.  A setting of "
"B<0> disables this feature.  Multiple sector mode (aka IDE Block Mode), is a "
"feature of most modern IDE hard drives, permitting the transfer of multiple "
"sectors per I/O interrupt, rather than the usual one sector per interrupt.  "
"When this feature is enabled, it typically reduces operating system overhead "
"for disk I/O by 30-50%.  On many systems, it also provides increased data "
"throughput of anywhere from 5% to 50%.  Some drives, however (most notably "
"the WD Caviar series), seem to run slower with multiple mode enabled.  Your "
"mileage may vary.  Most drives support the minimum settings of 2, 4, 8, or "
"16 (sectors).  Larger settings may also be possible, depending on the "
"drive.  A setting of 16 or 32 seems optimal on many systems.  Western "
"Digital recommends lower settings of 4 to 8 on many of their drives, due "
"tiny (32kB) drive buffers and non-optimized buffering algorithms.  The B<-i> "
"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.>"
msgstr ""

#. type: TP
#: archlinux debian-bookworm debian-unstable fedora-40 fedora-rawhide
#: mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6 opensuse-tumbleweed
#, no-wrap
msgid "I<--make-bad-sector>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Plain text
#: archlinux debian-bookworm debian-unstable fedora-40 fedora-rawhide
#: mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6 opensuse-tumbleweed
msgid ""
"Deliberately create a bad sector (aka. \"media error\") on the disk.  "
"B<EXCEPTIONALLY DANGEROUS. DO NOT USE THIS OPTION!!> This can be useful for "
"testing of device/RAID error recovery mechanisms.  The sector number is "
"given as a (base10) parameter after the option.  Depending on the device, "
"hdparm will choose one of two possible ATA commands for corrupting the "
"sector.  The WRITE_LONG works on most drives, but only up to the 28-bit "
"sector boundary.  Some very recent drives (2008) may support the new "
"WRITE_UNCORRECTABLE_EXT command, which works for any LBA48 sector.  If "
"available, hdparm will use that in preference to WRITE_LONG.  The "
"WRITE_UNCORRECTABLE_EXT command itself presents a choice of how the new bad "
"sector should behave.  By default, it will look like any other bad sector, "
"and the drive may take some time to retry and fail on subsequent READs of "
"the sector.  However, if a single letter B<f> is prepended immediately in "
"front of the first digit of the sector number parameter, then hdparm will "
"issue a \"flagged\" WRITE_UNCORRECTABLE_EXT, which causes the drive to "
"merely flag the sector as bad (rather than genuinely corrupt it), and "
"subsequent READs of the sector will fail immediately (rather than after "
"several retries).  Note also that the B<--repair-sector> option can be used "
"to restore (any) bad sectors when they are no longer needed, including "
"sectors that were genuinely bad (the drive will likely remap those to a "
"fresh area on the media)."
msgstr ""

#. type: TP
#: archlinux debian-bookworm debian-unstable fedora-40 fedora-rawhide
#: mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6 opensuse-tumbleweed
#, no-wrap
msgid "I<-M>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Plain text
#: archlinux debian-bookworm debian-unstable fedora-40 fedora-rawhide
#: mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6 opensuse-tumbleweed
msgid ""
"Get/set Automatic Acoustic Management (AAM) setting. Most modern harddisk "
"drives have the ability to speed down the head movements to reduce their "
"noise output.  The possible values are between 0 and 254. 128 is the most "
"quiet (and therefore slowest) setting and 254 the fastest (and loudest). "
"Some drives have only two levels (quiet / fast), while others may have "
"different levels between 128 and 254.  At the moment, most drives only "
"support 3 options, off, quiet, and fast.  These have been assigned the "
"values 0, 128, and 254 at present, respectively, but integer space has been "
"incorporated for future expansion, should this change."
msgstr ""

#. type: TP
#: archlinux debian-bookworm debian-unstable fedora-40 fedora-rawhide
#: mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6 opensuse-tumbleweed
#, no-wrap
msgid "I<-n>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Plain text
#: archlinux debian-bookworm debian-unstable fedora-40 fedora-rawhide
#: mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6 opensuse-tumbleweed
msgid ""
"Get or set the \"ignore_write_errors\" flag in the driver.  Do NOT play with "
"this without grokking the driver source code first."
msgstr ""

#. type: TP
#: archlinux debian-bookworm debian-unstable fedora-40 fedora-rawhide
#: mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6 opensuse-tumbleweed
#, no-wrap
msgid "I<-N>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Plain text
#: archlinux fedora-40 fedora-rawhide mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6
#: opensuse-tumbleweed
msgid ""
"Get/set max visible number of sectors, also known as the B<Host Protected "
"Area> setting.  Without a parameter, B<-N> displays the current setting, "
"which is reported as two values: the first gives the current max sectors "
"setting, and the second shows the native (real) hardware limit for the "
"disk.  The difference between these two values indicates how many sectors of "
"the disk are currently hidden from the operating system, in the form of a "
"B<Host Protected Area (HPA).> This area is often used by computer makers to "
"hold diagnostic software, and/or a copy of the originally provided operating "
"system for recovery purposes.  Another possible use is to hide the true "
"capacity of a very large disk from a BIOS/system that cannot normally cope "
"with drives of that size (eg. most current {2010} BIOSs cannot deal with "
"drives larger than 2TB, so an HPA could be used to cause a 3TB drive to "
"report itself as a 2TB drive).  To change the current max (VERY DANGEROUS, "
"DATA LOSS IS EXTREMELY LIKELY), a new value should be provided (in base10) "
"immediately following the B<-N> option.  This value is specified as a count "
"of sectors, rather than the \"max sector address\" of the drive.  Drives "
"have the concept of a temporary (volatile) setting which is lost on the next "
"hardware reset, as well as a more permanent (non-volatile)  value which "
"survives resets and power cycles.  By default, B<-N> affects only the "
"temporary (volatile) setting.  To change the permanent (non-volatile) value, "
"prepend a leading B<p> character immediately before the first digit of the "
"value.  Drives are supposed to allow only a single permanent change per "
"session.  A hardware reset (or power cycle) is required before another "
"permanent B<-N> operation can succeed.  Note that any attempt to set this "
"value may fail if the disk is being accessed by other software at the same "
"time.  This is because setting the value requires a pair of back-to-back "
"drive commands, but there is no way to prevent some other command from being "
"inserted between them by the kernel.  So if it fails initially, just try "
"again.  Kernel support for B<-N> is buggy for many adapter types across many "
"kernel versions, in that an incorrect (too small) max size value is "
"sometimes reported.  As of the 2.6.27 kernel, this does finally seem to be "
"working on most hardware."
msgstr ""

#. type: TP
#: archlinux debian-bookworm debian-unstable fedora-40 fedora-rawhide
#: mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6 opensuse-tumbleweed
#, no-wrap
msgid "I<--offset>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Plain text
#: archlinux debian-bookworm debian-unstable fedora-40 fedora-rawhide
#: mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6 opensuse-tumbleweed
msgid ""
"Offsets to given number of GiB (1024*1024*1024) when performing B<-t> "
"timings of device reads.  Speed changes (about twice) along many mechanical "
"drives.  Usually the maximum is at the beginning, but not always.  Solid-"
"state drives (SSDs) should show similar timings regardless of offset."
msgstr ""

#. type: TP
#: archlinux debian-bookworm debian-unstable fedora-40 fedora-rawhide
#: mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6 opensuse-tumbleweed
#, no-wrap
msgid "I<-p>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Plain text
#: archlinux debian-bookworm debian-unstable fedora-40 fedora-rawhide
#: mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6 opensuse-tumbleweed
msgid ""
"Attempt to reprogram the IDE interface chipset for the specified PIO mode, "
"or attempt to auto-tune for the \"best\" PIO mode supported by the drive.  "
"This feature is supported in the kernel for only a few \"known\" chipsets, "
"and even then the support is iffy at best.  Some IDE chipsets are unable to "
"alter the PIO mode for a single drive, in which case this option may cause "
"the PIO mode for I<both> drives to be set.  Many IDE chipsets support either "
"fewer or more than the standard six (0 to 5) PIO modes, so the exact speed "
"setting that is actually implemented will vary by chipset/driver "
"sophistication.  I<Use with extreme caution!> This feature includes zero "
"protection for the unwary, and an unsuccessful outcome may result in "
"I<severe filesystem corruption!>"
msgstr ""

#. type: TP
#: archlinux debian-bookworm debian-unstable fedora-40 fedora-rawhide
#: mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6 opensuse-tumbleweed
#, no-wrap
msgid "I<-P>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Plain text
#: archlinux fedora-40 fedora-rawhide mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6
#: opensuse-tumbleweed
msgid ""
"Set the maximum sector count for the drive\\'s internal prefetch mechanism.  "
"Not all drives support this feature, and it was dropped from the official "
"spec as of ATA-4."
msgstr ""

#. type: TP
#: archlinux debian-bookworm debian-unstable fedora-40 fedora-rawhide
#: mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6 opensuse-tumbleweed
#, no-wrap
msgid "I<--prefer-ata12>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Plain text
#: archlinux fedora-40 fedora-rawhide mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6
#: opensuse-tumbleweed
msgid ""
"When using the SAT (SCSI ATA Translation) protocol, hdparm normally prefers "
"to use the 16-byte command format whenever possible.  But some USB drive "
"enclosures don't work correctly with 16-byte commands.  This option can be "
"used to force use of the smaller 12-byte command format with such drives.  "
"hdparm will still revert to 16-byte commands for things that cannot be done "
"with the 12-byte format (e.g. sector accesses beyond 28-bits)."
msgstr ""

#. type: TP
#: archlinux debian-bookworm debian-unstable fedora-40 fedora-rawhide
#: mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6 opensuse-tumbleweed
#, no-wrap
msgid "I<-q>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Plain text
#: archlinux debian-bookworm debian-unstable fedora-40 fedora-rawhide
#: mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6 opensuse-tumbleweed
msgid ""
"Handle the next option quietly, suppressing normal output (but not error "
"messages).  This is useful for reducing screen clutter when running from "
"system startup scripts.  Not applicable to the B<-i> or B<-v> or B<-t> or B<-"
"T> options."
msgstr ""

#. type: TP
#: archlinux debian-bookworm debian-unstable fedora-40 fedora-rawhide
#: mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6 opensuse-tumbleweed
#, no-wrap
msgid "I<-Q>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Plain text
#: archlinux debian-bookworm debian-unstable fedora-40 fedora-rawhide
#: mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6 opensuse-tumbleweed
msgid ""
"Get or set the device's command queue_depth, if supported by the hardware.  "
"This only works with 2.6.xx (or later) kernels, and only with device and "
"driver combinations which support changing the queue_depth.  For SATA disks, "
"this is the Native Command Queuing (NCQ) queue depth."
msgstr ""

#. type: TP
#: archlinux debian-bookworm debian-unstable fedora-40 fedora-rawhide
#: mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6 opensuse-tumbleweed
#, no-wrap
msgid "I<-r>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Plain text
#: archlinux debian-bookworm debian-unstable fedora-40 fedora-rawhide
#: mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6 opensuse-tumbleweed
msgid ""
"Get/set read-only flag for the device.  When set, Linux disallows write "
"operations on the device."
msgstr ""

#. type: TP
#: archlinux debian-bookworm debian-unstable fedora-40 fedora-rawhide
#: mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6 opensuse-tumbleweed
#, no-wrap
msgid "I<-R>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Plain text
#: archlinux debian-bookworm debian-unstable fedora-40 fedora-rawhide
#: mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6 opensuse-tumbleweed
msgid ""
"Get/set Write-Read-Verify feature, if the drive supports it.  Usage: B<-R0> "
"(disable) or B<-R1> (enable).  This feature is intended to have the drive "
"firmware automatically read-back any data that is written by software, to "
"verify that the data was successfully written.  This is generally overkill, "
"and can slow down disk writes by as much as a factor of two (or more)."
msgstr ""

#. type: TP
#: archlinux debian-bookworm debian-unstable fedora-40 fedora-rawhide
#: mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6 opensuse-tumbleweed
#, no-wrap
msgid "I<--read-sector>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Plain text
#: archlinux fedora-40 fedora-rawhide mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6
#: opensuse-tumbleweed
msgid ""
"Reads from the specified sector number, and dumps the contents in hex to "
"standard output.  The sector number must be given (base10) after this "
"option.  hdparm will issue a low-level read (completely bypassing the usual "
"block layer read/write mechanisms)  for the specified sector.  This can be "
"used to definitively check whether a given sector is bad (media error) or "
"not (doing so through the usual mechanisms can sometimes give false "
"positives)."
msgstr ""

#. type: TP
#: archlinux debian-bookworm debian-unstable fedora-40 fedora-rawhide
#: mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6 opensuse-tumbleweed
#, no-wrap
msgid "I<--repair-sector>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Plain text
#: archlinux debian-bookworm debian-unstable fedora-40 fedora-rawhide
#: mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6 opensuse-tumbleweed
msgid "This is an alias for the B<--write-sector> option.  VERY DANGEROUS."
msgstr ""

#. type: TP
#: archlinux debian-bookworm debian-unstable fedora-40 fedora-rawhide
#: mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6 opensuse-tumbleweed
#, no-wrap
msgid "I<-s>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Plain text
#: archlinux debian-bookworm debian-unstable fedora-40 fedora-rawhide
#: mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6 opensuse-tumbleweed
msgid ""
"Enable/disable the power-on in standby feature, if supported by the drive.  "
"B<VERY DANGEROUS.> Do not use unless you are absolutely certain that both "
"the system BIOS (or firmware) and the operating system kernel (Linux E<gt>= "
"2.6.22) support probing for drives that use this feature.  When enabled, the "
"drive is powered-up in the B<standby> mode to allow the controller to "
"sequence the spin-up of devices, reducing the instantaneous current draw "
"burden when many drives share a power supply.  Primarily for use in large "
"RAID setups.  This feature is usually disabled and the drive is powered-up "
"in the B<active> mode (see -C above).  Note that a drive may also allow "
"enabling this feature by a jumper.  Some SATA drives support the control of "
"this feature by pin 11 of the SATA power connector. In these cases, this "
"command may be unsupported or may have no effect."
msgstr ""

#. type: TP
#: archlinux debian-bookworm debian-unstable fedora-40 fedora-rawhide
#: mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6 opensuse-tumbleweed
#, no-wrap
msgid "I<-S>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Plain text
#: archlinux debian-bookworm debian-unstable fedora-40 fedora-rawhide
#: mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6 opensuse-tumbleweed
msgid ""
"Put the drive into idle (low-power) mode, and also set the standby "
"(spindown) timeout for the drive.  This timeout value is used by the drive "
"to determine how long to wait (with no disk activity)  before turning off "
"the spindle motor to save power.  Under such circumstances, the drive may "
"take as long as 30 seconds to respond to a subsequent disk access, though "
"most drives are much quicker.  The encoding of the timeout value is somewhat "
"peculiar.  A value of zero means \"timeouts are disabled\": the device will "
"not automatically enter standby mode.  Values from 1 to 240 specify "
"multiples of 5 seconds, yielding timeouts from 5 seconds to 20 minutes.  "
"Values from 241 to 251 specify from 1 to 11 units of 30 minutes, yielding "
"timeouts from 30 minutes to 5.5 hours.  A value of 252 signifies a timeout "
"of 21 minutes. A value of 253 sets a vendor-defined timeout period between 8 "
"and 12 hours, and the value 254 is reserved.  255 is interpreted as 21 "
"minutes plus 15 seconds.  Note that some older drives may have very "
"different interpretations of these values."
msgstr ""

#. type: TP
#: archlinux debian-bookworm debian-unstable fedora-40 fedora-rawhide
#: mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6 opensuse-tumbleweed
#, no-wrap
msgid "I<--set-sector-size>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Plain text
#: archlinux debian-bookworm debian-unstable fedora-40 fedora-rawhide
#: mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6 opensuse-tumbleweed
msgid ""
"For drives which support reconfiguring of the Logical Sector Size, this flag "
"can be used to specify the new desired sector size in bytes.  B<VERY "
"DANGEROUS. This most likely will scramble all data on the drive.> The "
"specified size must be one of 512, 520, 528, 4096, 4160, or 4224.  Very few "
"drives support values other than 512 and 4096.  Eg.  B<hdparm --set-sector-"
"size 4096 /dev/sdb>"
msgstr ""

#. type: TP
#: archlinux debian-bookworm debian-unstable fedora-40 fedora-rawhide
#: mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6 opensuse-tumbleweed
#, no-wrap
msgid "I<-t>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Plain text
#: archlinux fedora-40 fedora-rawhide mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6
#: opensuse-tumbleweed
msgid ""
"Perform timings of device reads for benchmark and comparison purposes.  For "
"meaningful results, this operation should be repeated 2-3 times on an "
"otherwise inactive system (no other active processes) with at least a couple "
"of megabytes of free memory.  This displays the speed of reading through the "
"buffer cache to the disk without any prior caching of data.  This "
"measurement is an indication of how fast the drive can sustain sequential "
"data reads under Linux, without any filesystem overhead.  To ensure accurate "
"measurements, the buffer cache is flushed during the processing of I<-t> "
"using the BLKFLSBUF ioctl."
msgstr ""

#. type: TP
#: archlinux debian-bookworm debian-unstable fedora-40 fedora-rawhide
#: mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6 opensuse-tumbleweed
#, no-wrap
msgid "I<-T>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Plain text
#: archlinux fedora-40 fedora-rawhide mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6
#: opensuse-tumbleweed
msgid ""
"Perform timings of cache reads for benchmark and comparison purposes.  For "
"meaningful results, this operation should be repeated 2-3 times on an "
"otherwise inactive system (no other active processes) with at least a couple "
"of megabytes of free memory.  This displays the speed of reading directly "
"from the Linux buffer cache without disk access.  This measurement is "
"essentially an indication of the throughput of the processor, cache, and "
"memory of the system under test."
msgstr ""

#. type: TP
#: archlinux debian-bookworm debian-unstable fedora-40 fedora-rawhide
#: mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6 opensuse-tumbleweed
#, no-wrap
msgid "I<--trim-sector-ranges>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Plain text
#: archlinux debian-bookworm debian-unstable fedora-40 fedora-rawhide
#: mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6 opensuse-tumbleweed
msgid ""
"For Solid State Drives (SSDs).  B<EXCEPTIONALLY DANGEROUS. DO NOT USE THIS "
"OPTION!!> Tells the drive firmware to discard unneeded data sectors, "
"destroying any data that may have been present within them.  This makes "
"those sectors available for immediate use by the firmware's garbage "
"collection mechanism, to improve scheduling for wear-leveling of the flash "
"media.  This option expects one or more sector range pairs immediately after "
"the option: an LBA starting address, a colon, and a sector count (max "
"65535), with no intervening spaces.  B<EXCEPTIONALLY DANGEROUS. DO NOT USE "
"THIS OPTION!!>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Plain text
#: archlinux fedora-40 fedora-rawhide mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6
#: opensuse-tumbleweed
msgid "E.g.  B<hdparm --trim-sector-ranges 1000:4 7894:16 /dev/sdz>"
msgstr ""

#. type: TP
#: archlinux debian-bookworm debian-unstable fedora-40 fedora-rawhide
#: mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6 opensuse-tumbleweed
#, no-wrap
msgid "I<--trim-sector-ranges-stdin>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Plain text
#: archlinux debian-bookworm debian-unstable fedora-40 fedora-rawhide
#: mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6 opensuse-tumbleweed
msgid ""
"Identical to B<--trim-sector-ranges> above, except the list of lba:count "
"pairs is read from stdin rather than being specified on the command line.  "
"This can be used to avoid problems with excessively long command lines.  It "
"also permits batching of many more sector ranges into single commands to the "
"drive, up to the currently configured transfer limit (max_sectors_kb)."
msgstr ""

#. type: TP
#: archlinux debian-bookworm debian-unstable fedora-40 fedora-rawhide
#: mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6 opensuse-tumbleweed
#, no-wrap
msgid "I<-u>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Plain text
#: archlinux fedora-40 fedora-rawhide mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6
#: opensuse-tumbleweed
msgid ""
"Get/set the interrupt-unmask flag for the drive.  A setting of B<1> permits "
"the driver to unmask other interrupts during processing of a disk interrupt, "
"which greatly improves Linux\\'s responsiveness and eliminates \"serial port "
"overrun\" errors.  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.> In "
"particular, B<CMD-640B> and B<RZ1000> (E)IDE interfaces can be B<unreliable> "
"(due to a hardware flaw) when this option is used with kernel versions "
"earlier than 2.0.13.  Disabling the B<IDE prefetch> feature of these "
"interfaces (usually a BIOS/CMOS setting)  provides a safe fix for the "
"problem for use with earlier kernels."
msgstr ""

#. type: TP
#: archlinux debian-bookworm debian-unstable fedora-40 fedora-rawhide
#: mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6 opensuse-tumbleweed
#, no-wrap
msgid "I<-v>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Plain text
#: archlinux debian-bookworm debian-unstable fedora-40 fedora-rawhide
#: mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6 opensuse-tumbleweed
msgid ""
"Display some basic settings, similar to -acdgkmur for IDE.  This is also the "
"default behaviour when no options are specified."
msgstr ""

#. type: TP
#: archlinux debian-bookworm debian-unstable fedora-40 fedora-rawhide
#: mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6 opensuse-tumbleweed
#, no-wrap
msgid "I<-V>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Plain text
#: archlinux debian-bookworm debian-unstable fedora-40 fedora-rawhide
#: mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6 opensuse-tumbleweed
msgid "Display program version and exit immediately."
msgstr ""

#. type: TP
#: archlinux debian-bookworm debian-unstable fedora-40 fedora-rawhide
#: mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6 opensuse-tumbleweed
#, no-wrap
msgid "I<--verbose>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Plain text
#: archlinux debian-bookworm debian-unstable fedora-40 fedora-rawhide
#: mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6 opensuse-tumbleweed
msgid "Display extra diagnostics from some commands."
msgstr ""

#. type: TP
#: archlinux debian-bookworm debian-unstable fedora-40 fedora-rawhide
#: mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6 opensuse-tumbleweed
#, no-wrap
msgid "I<-w>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Plain text
#: archlinux debian-bookworm debian-unstable fedora-40 fedora-rawhide
#: mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6 opensuse-tumbleweed
msgid ""
"Perform a device reset B<(DANGEROUS).> Do NOT use this option.  It exists "
"for unlikely situations where a reboot might otherwise be required to get a "
"confused drive back into a useable state."
msgstr ""

#. type: TP
#: archlinux debian-bookworm debian-unstable fedora-40 fedora-rawhide
#: mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6 opensuse-tumbleweed
#, no-wrap
msgid "I<--write-sector>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Plain text
#: archlinux fedora-40 fedora-rawhide mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6
#: opensuse-tumbleweed
msgid ""
"Writes zeros to the specified sector number.  VERY DANGEROUS.  The sector "
"number must be given (base10) after this option.  hdparm will issue a low-"
"level write (completely bypassing the usual block layer read/write "
"mechanisms)  to the specified sector.  This can be used to force a drive to "
"repair a bad sector (media error)."
msgstr ""

#. type: TP
#: archlinux debian-bookworm debian-unstable fedora-40 fedora-rawhide
#: mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6 opensuse-tumbleweed
#, no-wrap
msgid "I<-W>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Plain text
#: archlinux fedora-40 fedora-rawhide mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6
#: opensuse-tumbleweed
msgid "Get/set the IDE/SATA drive\\'s write-caching feature."
msgstr ""

#. type: TP
#: archlinux debian-bookworm debian-unstable fedora-40 fedora-rawhide
#: mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6 opensuse-tumbleweed
#, no-wrap
msgid "I<-X>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Plain text
#: archlinux fedora-40 fedora-rawhide mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6
#: opensuse-tumbleweed
msgid ""
"Set the IDE transfer mode for (E)IDE/ATA drives.  This is typically used in "
"combination with B<-d1> when enabling DMA to/from a drive on a supported "
"interface chipset, where B<-X mdma2> is used to select multiword DMA mode2 "
"transfers and B<-X sdma1> is used to select simple mode 1 DMA transfers.  "
"With systems which support UltraDMA burst timings, B<-X udma2> is used to "
"select UltraDMA mode2 transfers (you\\'ll need to prepare the chipset for "
"UltraDMA beforehand).  Apart from that, use of this option is B<seldom "
"necessary> since most/all modern IDE drives default to their fastest PIO "
"transfer mode at power-on.  Fiddling with this can be both needless and "
"risky.  On drives which support alternate transfer modes, B<-X> can be used "
"to switch the mode of the drive B<only.> Prior to changing the transfer "
"mode, the IDE interface should be jumpered or programmed (see B<-p> option)  "
"for the new mode setting to prevent loss and/or corruption of data.  I<Use "
"this with extreme caution!> For the PIO (Programmed Input/Output)  transfer "
"modes used by Linux, this value is simply the desired PIO mode number plus "
"8.  Thus, a value of 09 sets PIO mode1, 10 enables PIO mode2, and 11 selects "
"PIO mode3.  Setting 00 restores the drive\\'s \"default\" PIO mode, and 01 "
"disables IORDY.  For multiword DMA, the value used is the desired DMA mode "
"number plus 32.  for UltraDMA, the value is the desired UltraDMA mode number "
"plus 64."
msgstr ""

#. type: TP
#: archlinux debian-bookworm debian-unstable fedora-40 fedora-rawhide
#: mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6 opensuse-tumbleweed
#, no-wrap
msgid "I<-y>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Plain text
#: archlinux debian-bookworm debian-unstable fedora-40 fedora-rawhide
#: mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6 opensuse-tumbleweed
msgid ""
"Force an IDE drive to immediately enter the low power consumption B<standby> "
"mode, usually causing it to spin down.  The current power mode status can be "
"checked using the B<-C> option."
msgstr ""

#. type: TP
#: archlinux debian-bookworm debian-unstable fedora-40 fedora-rawhide
#: mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6 opensuse-tumbleweed
#, no-wrap
msgid "I<-Y>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Plain text
#: archlinux debian-bookworm debian-unstable fedora-40 fedora-rawhide
#: mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6 opensuse-tumbleweed
msgid ""
"Force an IDE drive to immediately enter the lowest power consumption "
"B<sleep> mode, causing it to shut down completely.  A hard or soft reset is "
"required before the drive can be accessed again (the Linux IDE driver will "
"automatically handle issuing a reset if/when needed).  The current power "
"mode status can be checked using the B<-C> option."
msgstr ""

#. type: TP
#: archlinux debian-bookworm debian-unstable fedora-40 fedora-rawhide
#: mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6 opensuse-tumbleweed
#, no-wrap
msgid "I<-z>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Plain text
#: archlinux debian-bookworm debian-unstable fedora-40 fedora-rawhide
#: mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6 opensuse-tumbleweed
msgid ""
"Force a kernel re-read of the partition table of the specified device(s)."
msgstr ""

#. type: TP
#: archlinux debian-bookworm debian-unstable fedora-40 fedora-rawhide
#: mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6 opensuse-tumbleweed
#, no-wrap
msgid "I<-Z>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Plain text
#: archlinux debian-bookworm debian-unstable fedora-40 fedora-rawhide
#: mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6 opensuse-tumbleweed
msgid ""
"Disable the automatic power-saving function of certain Seagate drives "
"(ST3xxx models?), to prevent them from idling/spinning-down at inconvenient "
"times."
msgstr ""

#. type: SH
#: archlinux debian-bookworm debian-unstable fedora-40 fedora-rawhide
#: mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6 opensuse-tumbleweed
#, no-wrap
msgid "ATA Security Feature Set"
msgstr ""

#. type: Plain text
#: archlinux debian-bookworm debian-unstable fedora-40 fedora-rawhide
#: mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6 opensuse-tumbleweed
msgid ""
"These switches are B<DANGEROUS> to experiment with, and might not work with "
"some kernels.  B<USE AT YOUR OWN RISK.>"
msgstr ""

#. type: TP
#: archlinux debian-bookworm debian-unstable fedora-40 fedora-rawhide
#: mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6 opensuse-tumbleweed
#, no-wrap
msgid "I<--security-help>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Plain text
#: archlinux debian-bookworm debian-unstable fedora-40 fedora-rawhide
#: mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6 opensuse-tumbleweed
msgid "Display terse usage info for all of the --security-* options."
msgstr ""

#. type: TP
#: archlinux debian-bookworm debian-unstable fedora-40 fedora-rawhide
#: mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6 opensuse-tumbleweed
#, no-wrap
msgid "I<--security-freeze>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Plain text
#: archlinux fedora-40 fedora-rawhide mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6
#: opensuse-tumbleweed
msgid ""
"Freeze the drive\\'s security settings.  The drive does not accept any "
"security commands until next power-on reset.  Use this function in "
"combination with --security-unlock to protect drive from any attempt to set "
"a new password. Can be used standalone, too.  No other options are permitted "
"on the command line with this one."
msgstr ""

#. type: TP
#: archlinux debian-bookworm debian-unstable fedora-40 fedora-rawhide
#: mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6 opensuse-tumbleweed
#, no-wrap
msgid "I<--security-prompt-for-password>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Plain text
#: archlinux debian-bookworm debian-unstable fedora-40 fedora-rawhide
#: mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6 opensuse-tumbleweed
msgid ""
"Prompt for the --security PWD rather than getting from the command line "
"args.  This avoids having passwords show up in shell history or in /proc/"
"self/cmdline during execution."
msgstr ""

#. type: TP
#: archlinux debian-bookworm debian-unstable fedora-40 fedora-rawhide
#: mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6 opensuse-tumbleweed
#, no-wrap
msgid "I<--security-unlock PWD>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Plain text
#: archlinux debian-bookworm debian-unstable fedora-40 fedora-rawhide
#: mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6 opensuse-tumbleweed
msgid ""
"Unlock the drive, using password PWD.  Password is given as an ASCII string "
"and is padded with NULs to reach 32 bytes.  The applicable drive password is "
"selected with the --user-master switch (default is \"user\" password).  No "
"other options are permitted on the command line with this one."
msgstr ""

#. type: TP
#: archlinux debian-bookworm debian-unstable fedora-40 fedora-rawhide
#: mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6 opensuse-tumbleweed
#, no-wrap
msgid "I<--security-set-pass PWD>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Plain text
#: archlinux debian-bookworm debian-unstable fedora-40 fedora-rawhide
#: mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6 opensuse-tumbleweed
msgid ""
"Lock the drive, using password PWD (Set Password)  B<(DANGEROUS).> Password "
"is given as an ASCII string and is padded with NULs to reach 32 bytes.  Use "
"the special password B<NULL> to set an empty password.  The applicable drive "
"password is selected with the --user-master switch (default is \"user\" "
"password)  and the applicable security mode with the --security-mode "
"switch.  No other options are permitted on the command line with this one."
msgstr ""

#. type: TP
#: archlinux debian-bookworm debian-unstable fedora-40 fedora-rawhide
#: mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6 opensuse-tumbleweed
#, no-wrap
msgid "I<--security-disable PWD>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Plain text
#: archlinux debian-bookworm debian-unstable fedora-40 fedora-rawhide
#: mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6 opensuse-tumbleweed
msgid ""
"Disable drive locking, using password PWD.  Password is given as an ASCII "
"string and is padded with NULs to reach 32 bytes.  The applicable drive "
"password is selected with the --user-master switch (default is \"user\" "
"password).  No other options are permitted on the command line with this one."
msgstr ""

#. type: TP
#: archlinux debian-bookworm debian-unstable fedora-40 fedora-rawhide
#: mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6 opensuse-tumbleweed
#, no-wrap
msgid "I<--security-erase PWD>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Plain text
#: archlinux debian-bookworm debian-unstable fedora-40 fedora-rawhide
#: mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6 opensuse-tumbleweed
msgid ""
"Erase (locked) drive, using password PWD B<(DANGEROUS).> Password is given "
"as an ASCII string and is padded with NULs to reach 32 bytes.  Use the "
"special password B<NULL> to represent an empty password.  The applicable "
"drive password is selected with the --user-master switch (default is "
"\"user\" password).  No other options are permitted on the command line with "
"this one."
msgstr ""

#. type: TP
#: archlinux debian-bookworm debian-unstable fedora-40 fedora-rawhide
#: mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6 opensuse-tumbleweed
#, no-wrap
msgid "I<--security-erase-enhanced PWD>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Plain text
#: archlinux debian-bookworm debian-unstable fedora-40 fedora-rawhide
#: mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6 opensuse-tumbleweed
msgid ""
"Enhanced erase (locked) drive, using password PWD B<(DANGEROUS).> Password "
"is given as an ASCII string and is padded with NULs to reach 32 bytes.  The "
"applicable drive password is selected with the --user-master switch (default "
"is \"user\" password).  No other options are permitted on the command line "
"with this one."
msgstr ""

#. type: TP
#: archlinux debian-bookworm debian-unstable fedora-40 fedora-rawhide
#: mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6 opensuse-tumbleweed
#, no-wrap
msgid "I<--user-master USER>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Plain text
#: archlinux debian-bookworm debian-unstable fedora-40 fedora-rawhide
#: mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6 opensuse-tumbleweed
#, no-wrap
msgid ""
"Specifies which password (user/master) to select.\n"
"B<Defaults to user password.>\n"
"Only useful in combination with --security-unlock, --security-set-pass,\n"
"--security-disable, --security-erase or --security-erase-enhanced.\n"
"        u       user password\n"
"        m       master password\n"
msgstr ""

#. type: TP
#: archlinux debian-bookworm debian-unstable fedora-40 fedora-rawhide
#: mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6 opensuse-tumbleweed
#, no-wrap
msgid "I<--security-mode MODE>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Plain text
#: archlinux debian-bookworm debian-unstable fedora-40 fedora-rawhide
#: mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6 opensuse-tumbleweed
#, no-wrap
msgid ""
"Specifies which security mode (high/maximum) to set.\n"
"B<Defaults to high.>\n"
"Only useful in combination with --security-set-pass.\n"
"        h       high security\n"
"        m       maximum security\n"
msgstr ""

#. type: Plain text
#: archlinux debian-bookworm debian-unstable fedora-40 fedora-rawhide
#: mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6 opensuse-tumbleweed
msgid ""
"B<THIS FEATURE IS EXPERIMENTAL AND NOT WELL TESTED. USE AT YOUR OWN RISK.>"
msgstr ""

#. type: SH
#: archlinux debian-bookworm debian-unstable fedora-40 fedora-rawhide
#: mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6 opensuse-tumbleweed
#, no-wrap
msgid "FILES"
msgstr ""

#. type: Plain text
#: archlinux debian-bookworm debian-unstable fedora-40 fedora-rawhide
#: mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6 opensuse-tumbleweed
msgid "/etc/hdparm.conf"
msgstr ""

#. type: SH
#: archlinux debian-bookworm debian-unstable fedora-40 fedora-rawhide
#: mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6 opensuse-tumbleweed
#, no-wrap
msgid "BUGS"
msgstr ""

#. type: Plain text
#: archlinux debian-bookworm debian-unstable fedora-40 fedora-rawhide
#: mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6 opensuse-tumbleweed
msgid ""
"As noted above, the B<-m sectcount> and B<-u 1> options should be used with "
"caution at first, preferably on a read-only filesystem.  Most drives work "
"well with these features, but a few drive/controller combinations are not "
"100% compatible.  Filesystem corruption may result.  Backup everything "
"before experimenting!"
msgstr ""

#. type: Plain text
#: archlinux fedora-40 fedora-rawhide mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6
#: opensuse-tumbleweed
msgid ""
"Some options (e.g. -r for SCSI) may not work with old kernels as necessary "
"ioctl()\\'s were not supported."
msgstr ""

#. type: Plain text
#: archlinux debian-bookworm debian-unstable fedora-40 fedora-rawhide
#: mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6 opensuse-tumbleweed
msgid ""
"Although this utility is intended primarily for use with SATA/IDE hard disk "
"devices, several of the options are also valid (and permitted) for use with "
"SCSI hard disk devices and MFM/RLL hard disks with XT interfaces."
msgstr ""

#. type: Plain text
#: archlinux fedora-40 fedora-rawhide mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6
#: opensuse-tumbleweed
msgid ""
"The Linux kernel up until 2.6.12 (and probably later) doesn\\'t handle the "
"security unlock and disable commands gracefully and will segfault and in "
"some cases even panic. The security commands however might indeed have been "
"executed by the drive. This poor kernel behaviour makes the PIO data "
"security commands rather useless at the moment."
msgstr ""

#. type: Plain text
#: archlinux debian-bookworm debian-unstable fedora-40 fedora-rawhide
#: mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6 opensuse-tumbleweed
msgid ""
"Note that the \"security erase\" and \"security disable\" commands have been "
"implemented as two consecutive PIO data commands and will not succeed on a "
"locked drive because the second command will not be issued after the "
"segfault.  See the code for hints how patch it to work around this problem. "
"Despite the segfault it is often still possible to run two instances of "
"hdparm consecutively and issue the two necessary commands that way."
msgstr ""

#. type: SH
#: archlinux debian-bookworm debian-unstable fedora-40 fedora-rawhide
#: mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6 opensuse-tumbleweed
#, no-wrap
msgid "AUTHOR"
msgstr ""

#. type: Plain text
#: archlinux debian-bookworm debian-unstable fedora-40 fedora-rawhide
#: mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6 opensuse-tumbleweed
msgid ""
"B<hdparm> has been written by Mark Lord E<lt>mlord@pobox.comE<gt>, the "
"original primary developer and maintainer of the (E)IDE driver for Linux, "
"and current contributor to the libata subsystem, along with suggestions and "
"patches from many netfolk."
msgstr ""

#. type: Plain text
#: archlinux debian-bookworm debian-unstable fedora-40 fedora-rawhide
#: mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6 opensuse-tumbleweed
msgid ""
"The disable Seagate auto-powersaving code is courtesy of Tomi "
"Leppikangas(tomilepp@paju.oulu.fi)."
msgstr ""

#. type: Plain text
#: archlinux debian-bookworm debian-unstable fedora-40 fedora-rawhide
#: mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6 opensuse-tumbleweed
msgid "Security freeze command by Benjamin Benz, 2005."
msgstr ""

#. type: Plain text
#: archlinux debian-bookworm debian-unstable fedora-40 fedora-rawhide
#: mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6 opensuse-tumbleweed
msgid ""
"PIO data out security commands by Leonard den Ottolander, 2005.  Some other "
"parts by Benjamin Benz and others."
msgstr ""

#. type: SH
#: archlinux debian-bookworm debian-unstable fedora-40 fedora-rawhide
#: mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6 opensuse-tumbleweed
#, no-wrap
msgid "SEE ALSO"
msgstr ""

#. type: Plain text
#: archlinux debian-bookworm debian-unstable fedora-40 fedora-rawhide
#: mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6 opensuse-tumbleweed
msgid ""
"B<http://www.t13.org/> Technical Committee T13 AT Attachment (ATA/ATAPI) "
"Interface."
msgstr ""

#. type: Plain text
#: archlinux debian-bookworm debian-unstable fedora-40 fedora-rawhide
#: mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6 opensuse-tumbleweed
msgid "B<http://www.serialata.org/> Serial ATA International Organization."
msgstr ""

#. type: Plain text
#: archlinux debian-bookworm debian-unstable fedora-40 fedora-rawhide
#: mageia-cauldron opensuse-leap-15-6 opensuse-tumbleweed
msgid "B<http://www.compactflash.org/> CompactFlash Association."
msgstr ""

#. type: Plain text
#: debian-bookworm debian-unstable
msgid ""
"B<hdparm> provides a command line interface to various kernel interfaces "
"supported by the Linux SATA/PATA/SAS \"libata\" subsystem and the older IDE "
"driver subsystem.  Many newer (2008 and later)  USB drive enclosures now "
"also support \"SAT\" (SCSI-ATA Command Translation)  and therefore may also "
"work with hdparm.  E.g., recent WD \"Passport\" models and recent NexStar-3 "
"enclosures.  Some options may work correctly only with the latest kernels."
msgstr ""

#. type: Plain text
#: debian-bookworm debian-unstable
msgid ""
"When no options are given, B<-acdgkmur> is assumed.  For \"Get/set\" "
"options, a query without the optional parameter (e.g., -d) will query (get) "
"the device state, and with a parameter (e.g., -d0) will set the device state."
msgstr ""

#. type: Plain text
#: debian-bookworm debian-unstable
msgid ""
"Get/set the IDE drive's read-lookahead feature (usually ON by default).  "
"Usage: B<-A0> (disable) or B<-A1> (enable)."
msgstr ""

#. type: Plain text
#: debian-bookworm debian-unstable
msgid ""
"Use the kernel's \"O_DIRECT\" flag when performing a B<-t> timing test.  "
"This bypasses the page cache, causing the reads to go directly from the "
"drive into hdparm's buffers, using so-called \"raw\" I/O.  In many cases, "
"this can produce results that appear much faster than the usual page cache "
"method, giving a better indication of raw device and driver performance."
msgstr ""

#. type: Plain text
#: debian-bookworm debian-unstable
msgid ""
"This option currently works only on ext4 and xfs filesystem types.  When "
"used, this must be the only option given.  It requires two parameters: the "
"desired file size in kibibytes (byte count divided by 1024), followed by the "
"pathname for the new file.  It will create a new file of the specified size, "
"but without actually having to write any data to the file.  This will "
"normally complete very quickly, and without thrashing the storage device."
msgstr ""

#. type: Plain text
#: debian-bookworm debian-unstable
msgid "E.g., create a 10\\ kibibyte file: B<hdparm --fallocate 10 temp_file>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Plain text
#: debian-bookworm debian-unstable
msgid ""
"When used, this must be the only option given.  It requires a file path as a "
"parameter, and will print out a list of the block extents (sector ranges)  "
"occupied by that file on disk.  Sector numbers are given as absolute LBA "
"numbers, referenced from sector 0 of the physical device rather than from "
"the partition or filesystem.  This information can then be used for a "
"variety of purposes, such as examining the degree of fragmentation of larger "
"files, or determining appropriate sectors to deliberately corrupt during "
"fault-injection testing procedures."
msgstr ""

#. type: Plain text
#: debian-bookworm debian-unstable
msgid ""
"This option uses the new FIEMAP (file extent map) ioctl() when available, "
"and falls back to the older FIBMAP (file block map) ioctl() otherwise.  Note "
"that FIBMAP suffers from a 32-bit block-number interface, and thus not work "
"beyond 8\\ TB or 16\\ TB.  FIBMAP is also very slow, and does not deal well "
"with preallocated uncommitted extents in ext4/xfs filesystems, unless a "
"sync() is done before using this option."
msgstr ""

#. type: Plain text
#: debian-bookworm debian-unstable
msgid ""
"Set the drive's \"keep_features_over_reset\" flag.  Setting this enables the "
"drive to retain the settings for B<-APSWXZ> over a soft reset (as done "
"during the error recovery sequence).  Not all drives support this feature."
msgstr ""

#. type: Plain text
#: debian-bookworm debian-unstable
msgid ""
"Set the drive's doorlock flag.  Setting this to B<1> will lock the door "
"mechanism of some removable hard drives (e.g., Syquest, ZIP, Jazz..), and "
"setting it to B<0> will unlock the door mechanism.  Normally, Linux "
"maintains the door locking mechanism automatically, depending on drive usage "
"(locked whenever a filesystem is mounted).  But on system shutdown, this can "
"be a nuisance if the root partition is on a removable disk, since the root "
"partition is left mounted (read-only) after shutdown.  So, by using this "
"command to unlock the door B<after> the root filesystem is remounted read-"
"only, one can then remove the cartridge from the drive after shutdown."
msgstr ""

#. type: Plain text
#: debian-bookworm debian-unstable
msgid ""
"Get/set sector count for multiple sector I/O on the drive.  A setting of "
"B<0> disables this feature.  Multiple sector mode (aka IDE Block Mode), is a "
"feature of most modern IDE hard drives, permitting the transfer of multiple "
"sectors per I/O interrupt, rather than the usual one sector per interrupt.  "
"When this feature is enabled, it typically reduces operating system overhead "
"for disk I/O by 30\\(en50%.  On many systems, it also provides increased "
"data throughput of anywhere from 5% to 50%.  Some drives, however (most "
"notably the WD Caviar series), seem to run slower with multiple mode "
"enabled.  Your mileage may vary.  Most drives support the minimum settings "
"of 2, 4, 8, or 16 (sectors).  Larger settings may also be possible, "
"depending on the drive.  A setting of 16 or 32 seems optimal on many "
"systems.  Western Digital recommends lower settings of 4 to 8 on many of "
"their drives, due tiny (32 KiB) drive buffers and non-optimized buffering "
"algorithms.  The B<-i> 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.>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Plain text
#: debian-bookworm debian-unstable
msgid ""
"Get/set max visible number of sectors, also known as the B<Host Protected "
"Area> setting.  Without a parameter, B<-N> displays the current setting, "
"which is reported as two values: the first gives the current max sectors "
"setting, and the second shows the native (real) hardware limit for the "
"disk.  The difference between these two values indicates how many sectors of "
"the disk are currently hidden from the operating system, in the form of a "
"B<Host Protected Area (HPA).> This area is often used by computer makers to "
"hold diagnostic software, and/or a copy of the originally provided operating "
"system for recovery purposes.  Another possible use is to hide the true "
"capacity of a very large disk from a BIOS/system that cannot normally cope "
"with drives of that size (e.g., most current {2010} BIOSs cannot deal with "
"drives larger than 2\\ TB, so an HPA could be used to cause a 3\\ TB drive "
"to report itself as a 2\\ TB drive).  To change the current max (VERY "
"DANGEROUS, DATA LOSS IS EXTREMELY LIKELY), a new value should be provided "
"(in base10) immediately following the B<-N> option.  This value is specified "
"as a count of sectors, rather than the \"max sector address\" of the drive.  "
"Drives have the concept of a temporary (volatile) setting which is lost on "
"the next hardware reset, as well as a more permanent (non-volatile)  value "
"which survives resets and power cycles.  By default, B<-N> affects only the "
"temporary (volatile) setting.  To change the permanent (non-volatile) value, "
"prepend a leading B<p> character immediately before the first digit of the "
"value.  Drives are supposed to allow only a single permanent change per "
"session.  A hardware reset (or power cycle) is required before another "
"permanent B<-N> operation can succeed.  Note that any attempt to set this "
"value may fail if the disk is being accessed by other software at the same "
"time.  This is because setting the value requires a pair of back-to-back "
"drive commands, but there is no way to prevent some other command from being "
"inserted between them by the kernel.  So if it fails initially, just try "
"again.  Kernel support for B<-N> is buggy for many adapter types across many "
"kernel versions, in that an incorrect (too small) max size value is "
"sometimes reported.  As of the 2.6.27 kernel, this does finally seem to be "
"working on most hardware."
msgstr ""

#. type: Plain text
#: debian-bookworm debian-unstable
msgid ""
"Set the maximum sector count for the drive's internal prefetch mechanism.  "
"Not all drives support this feature, and it was dropped from the official "
"spec as of ATA-4."
msgstr ""

#. type: Plain text
#: debian-bookworm debian-unstable
msgid ""
"When using the SAT (SCSI ATA Translation) protocol, hdparm normally prefers "
"to use the 16-byte command format whenever possible.  But some USB drive "
"enclosures don't work correctly with 16-byte commands.  This option can be "
"used to force use of the smaller 12-byte command format with such drives.  "
"hdparm will still revert to 16-byte commands for things that cannot be done "
"with the 12-byte format (e.g., sector accesses beyond 28-bits)."
msgstr ""

#. type: Plain text
#: debian-bookworm debian-unstable
msgid ""
"Reads from the specified sector number, and dumps the contents in hex to "
"standard output.  The sector number must be given (base10) after this "
"option.  hdparm will issue a low-level read (completely bypassing the usual "
"block layer read/write mechanisms) for the specified sector.  This can be "
"used to definitively check whether a given sector is bad (media error) or "
"not (doing so through the usual mechanisms can sometimes give false "
"positives)."
msgstr ""

#. type: Plain text
#: debian-bookworm debian-unstable
msgid ""
"Perform timings of device reads for benchmark and comparison purposes.  For "
"meaningful results, this operation should be repeated 2\\(en3 times on an "
"otherwise inactive system (no other active processes) with at least a couple "
"of megabytes of free memory.  This displays the speed of reading through the "
"buffer cache to the disk without any prior caching of data.  This "
"measurement is an indication of how fast the drive can sustain sequential "
"data reads under Linux, without any filesystem overhead.  To ensure accurate "
"measurements, the buffer cache is flushed during the processing of I<-t> "
"using the BLKFLSBUF ioctl."
msgstr ""

#. type: Plain text
#: debian-bookworm debian-unstable
msgid ""
"Perform timings of cache reads for benchmark and comparison purposes.  For "
"meaningful results, this operation should be repeated 2\\(en3 times on an "
"otherwise inactive system (no other active processes) with at least a couple "
"of megabytes of free memory.  This displays the speed of reading directly "
"from the Linux buffer cache without disk access.  This measurement is "
"essentially an indication of the throughput of the processor, cache, and "
"memory of the system under test."
msgstr ""

#. type: Plain text
#: debian-bookworm debian-unstable
msgid "E.g., B<hdparm --trim-sector-ranges 1000:4 7894:16 /dev/sdz>"
msgstr ""

#. type: Plain text
#: debian-bookworm debian-unstable
msgid ""
"Get/set the interrupt-unmask flag for the drive.  A setting of B<1> permits "
"the driver to unmask other interrupts during processing of a disk interrupt, "
"which greatly improves Linux's responsiveness and eliminates \"serial port "
"overrun\" errors.  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.> In "
"particular, B<CMD-640B> and B<RZ1000> (E)IDE interfaces can be B<unreliable> "
"(due to a hardware flaw) when this option is used with kernel versions "
"earlier than 2.0.13.  Disabling the B<IDE prefetch> feature of these "
"interfaces (usually a BIOS/CMOS setting)  provides a safe fix for the "
"problem for use with earlier kernels."
msgstr ""

#. type: Plain text
#: debian-bookworm debian-unstable
msgid ""
"Writes zeros to the specified sector number.  VERY DANGEROUS.  The sector "
"number must be given (base10) after this option.  hdparm will issue a low-"
"level write (completely bypassing the usual block layer read/write "
"mechanisms) to the specified sector.  This can be used to force a drive to "
"repair a bad sector (media error)."
msgstr ""

#. type: Plain text
#: debian-bookworm debian-unstable
msgid "Get/set the IDE/SATA drive's write-caching feature."
msgstr ""

#. type: Plain text
#: debian-bookworm debian-unstable
msgid ""
"Set the IDE transfer mode for (E)IDE/ATA drives.  This is typically used in "
"combination with B<-d1> when enabling DMA to/from a drive on a supported "
"interface chipset, where B<-X mdma2> is used to select multiword DMA mode2 "
"transfers and B<-X sdma1> is used to select simple mode 1 DMA transfers.  "
"With systems which support UltraDMA burst timings, B<-X udma2> is used to "
"select UltraDMA mode2 transfers (you'll need to prepare the chipset for "
"UltraDMA beforehand).  Apart from that, use of this option is B<seldom "
"necessary> since most/all modern IDE drives default to their fastest PIO "
"transfer mode at power-on.  Fiddling with this can be both needless and "
"risky.  On drives which support alternate transfer modes, B<-X> can be used "
"to switch the mode of the drive B<only.> Prior to changing the transfer "
"mode, the IDE interface should be jumpered or programmed (see B<-p> option)  "
"for the new mode setting to prevent loss and/or corruption of data.  I<Use "
"this with extreme caution!> For the PIO (Programmed Input/Output)  transfer "
"modes used by Linux, this value is simply the desired PIO mode number plus "
"8.  Thus, a value of 09 sets PIO mode1, 10 enables PIO mode2, and 11 selects "
"PIO mode3.  Setting 00 restores the drive's \"default\" PIO mode, and 01 "
"disables IORDY.  For multiword DMA, the value used is the desired DMA mode "
"number plus 32.  for UltraDMA, the value is the desired UltraDMA mode number "
"plus 64."
msgstr ""

#. type: Plain text
#: debian-bookworm debian-unstable
msgid ""
"Freeze the drive's security settings.  The drive does not accept any "
"security commands until next power-on reset.  Use this function in "
"combination with --security-unlock to protect drive from any attempt to set "
"a new password. Can be used standalone, too.  No other options are permitted "
"on the command line with this one."
msgstr ""

#. type: Plain text
#: debian-bookworm debian-unstable
msgid ""
"Some options (e.g., -r for SCSI) may not work with old kernels as necessary "
"ioctl()'s were not supported."
msgstr ""

#. type: Plain text
#: debian-bookworm debian-unstable
msgid ""
"The Linux kernel up until 2.6.12 (and probably later) doesn't handle the "
"security unlock and disable commands gracefully and will segfault and in "
"some cases even panic. The security commands however might indeed have been "
"executed by the drive. This poor kernel behaviour makes the PIO data "
"security commands rather useless at the moment."
msgstr ""

#. type: TH
#: opensuse-leap-15-6
#, no-wrap
msgid "May 2021"
msgstr ""

#. type: TH
#: opensuse-leap-15-6
#, no-wrap
msgid "Version 9.62"
msgstr ""

#. type: Plain text
#: opensuse-leap-15-6
msgid ""
"This is a special variation on the B<-I> option, which accepts a drive "
"identification block as standard input instead of using a /dev/hd* "
"parameter.  The format of this block must be B<exactly> the same as that "
"found in the /proc/ide/*/hd*/identify \"files\", or that produced by the B<--"
"Istdout> option described below.  This variation is designed for use with "
"collected \"libraries\" of drive identification information, and can also be "
"used on ATAPI drives which may give media errors with the standard "
"mechanism.  When B<--Istdin> is used, it must be the *only* parameter given."
msgstr ""