Talk:Hdparm
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Questionable claims:
"...with a serious backdraw: It is perfectly possible to ruin drives or controllers if used inproperly..."
This sounds like ruining hardware, as in burning out drives or controllers or something. How? What is the evidence? 'man hdparm' doesn't mention it. What kind of schlocky contoller or HD would it require?
So far as I know the worst 'hdparm' can do is destroy the data on a disk, but it cannot destroy hardware such as the disk media or the controller -- the hardware itself is certainly reusable, and should be no worse for the wear.
With this in mind, I'll remove the claims of hardware damage, barring further evidence. If it turns out the claim is true, I shall file a bug report for 'man hdparm', since such important information should be included, if well founded. --AC 05:04, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
