Activity for hdparm

W Bee created ticket #99

W Bee — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 09:20:45 -0000

hdparm.conf can only set parameters of the first 26 disks.

InfoLibre modified a comment on ticket #98

InfoLibre — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 20:14:22 -0000

And Firmware Revision too.

InfoLibre posted a comment on ticket #98

InfoLibre — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 20:14:01 -0000

And Firmware revision too.

InfoLibre created ticket #98

InfoLibre — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 20:13:31 -0000

Serial number and Model number for some USB key are displayed as binary data instead of UTF8 data

Mark Lord posted a comment on ticket #28

Mark Lord — Tue, 27 May 2025 13:39:40 -0000

I actually ran into this myself last fall, when I got a new notebook computer and then tested various NVMe drives for use with it. There are existing Linux utilities to do various configurations of multi-threaded I/O benchmarks, and they do it reasonably well. Eg. KDiskMark on KDE/Plasma, or the Gnome disk utility. The subject of benchmarking drives is sufficiently complex, I don't think it belongs in a low-level utility like hdparm, which is used on everything from small micro-controllers, RaspberryPi's,...

Ralf Naujokat posted a comment on ticket #28

Ralf Naujokat — Tue, 27 May 2025 13:32:22 -0000

Your points about real life and caching are of course valid, but to me it looks as if a single thread cannot achieve the full possible utilization, and therefore the test actually returns too low values. At least lower than the advertising promises. ;-) But it's up to you.

Mark Lord modified a comment on ticket #28

Mark Lord — Tue, 27 May 2025 13:00:47 -0000

I dunno. I'm kinda torn by this request. How would an extreme multi-threaded read test measure anything relevant to Real Life? The existing -t flag is for measuring sequential read speed, giving an indication of the throughput that real apps might expect to achieve. Eg. KVM or virtualbox saving a multi-GB VM state. Doing simultaneous over-lapping runs of the exact same data blocks from the drive isn't going to be relevant, and might just end up with most threads reading from the on-drive cache, rather...

Mark Lord posted a comment on ticket #28

Mark Lord — Tue, 27 May 2025 13:00:02 -0000

I dunno. I'm kinda torn by this request. How would an extreme multi-threaded read test measure anything relevant to Real Life? The existing -t flag is for measuring sequential read speed, giving an indication of the throughput that real apps might expect to achieve. Doing simultaneous over-lapping runs of the exact same data blocks from the drive isn't going to be relevant, and might just end up with most threads reading from the on-drive cache, rather than the flash memory.

Ralf Naujokat created ticket #28

Ralf Naujokat — Tue, 27 May 2025 11:00:27 -0000

Add a multi thread option for -t

Mark Lord posted a comment on ticket #14

Mark Lord — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 11:18:07 -0000

Unfortunately, SATA Port Multipliers are surprisingly difficult. They never really got the "love" they deserved from chip makers and manufacturers, and the result is that getting FIS based switching (FBS) to work, end-to-end, is a rare thing. The chipset inside the port-multiplier itself (aka. "the dock"), and its firmware, both have to support FBS without any chip-specific quirks (aka. "secret bug fixes"). Then the host controller (the "card") also has to have FBS and NCQ support, and its firmware...

hdparmuser posted a comment on ticket #14

hdparmuser — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 10:06:49 -0000

Both cards I'm testing with state they utilise FIS. Startech PEXESATA2 - Silicon Image - SiI3132 and Startech PEXESAT322I - ASMedia - ASM1061 According to Startech's documentation, both support FIS

Mark Lord modified ticket #14

Mark Lord — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 12:42:52 -0000

Unable to run multiple hdparm secure erase actions in parallel against multiple drives using port multiplier

Mark Lord posted a comment on ticket #14

Mark Lord — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 12:41:52 -0000

Not all SATA Port-Multiplier chips are capable of running multiple commands simultaneously. That is likely the issue you see here -- hardware, not software. Command-Based-Switching (CBS) is the most common type, and those can only control a single drive at any point in time. FIS-Based-Switching (FBS) are the better kind of port-multipler, and those can treat each drive completely independently, with multiple commands in-flight to multiple drives simultaneously. Cheers

hdparmuser created ticket #14

hdparmuser — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 08:29:53 -0000

Unable to run multiple hdparm secure erase actions in parallel against multiple drives using port multiplier

Clarence Risher created ticket #57

Clarence Risher — Fri, 20 Sep 2024 19:32:53 -0000

Replace ultrabayd unsafe echo of BEL character with printf

Mark Lord modified ticket #93

Mark Lord — Fri, 06 Sep 2024 19:43:30 -0000

set-sector-size and -Istdout woes with TOSHIBA MG09ACA18TE

Mark Lord posted a comment on ticket #93

Mark Lord — Fri, 06 Sep 2024 19:43:11 -0000

The datasheet clearly shows that only the models with an "S" as the 5th character support changing the sector size. Yours has an "A". Drive doesn't support it.

Fabian V. Thobe created ticket #27

Fabian V. Thobe — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 06:26:07 -0000

Migration to a more collaboration friendly codebase

Jaakko Hintsala posted a comment on ticket #93

Jaakko Hintsala — Mon, 12 Aug 2024 23:25:54 -0000

This issue happens also on TOSHIBA MG10ACA20TA.

Jaakko Hintsala posted a comment on ticket #93

Jaakko Hintsala — Mon, 12 Aug 2024 23:25:12 -0000

Thank you so much! This worked for me too on TOSHIBA MG10ACA20TA

Mark Lord modified ticket #13

Mark Lord — Sat, 10 Aug 2024 15:50:43 -0000

HDparm creating sdX:sdX1 spurious logs in kernel log

Mark Lord posted a comment on ticket #13

Mark Lord — Sat, 10 Aug 2024 15:50:43 -0000

Rejected. This is a distro bug, not an hdparm bug. Fix your distro's scripts.

Anthony Desmarais created ticket #13

Anthony Desmarais — Sat, 10 Aug 2024 15:40:23 -0000

HDparm creating sdX:sdX1 spurious logs in kernel log

Jari Aalto created ticket #97

Jari Aalto — Thu, 11 Apr 2024 09:11:25 -0000

hdparm 9.65 / remove extra EOL whitesapce from the output

Jari Aalto created ticket #26

Jari Aalto — Thu, 11 Apr 2024 09:04:27 -0000

hdparm 9.65 / add --long option suport for all options

Mark Lord posted a comment on discussion Open Discussion

Mark Lord — Tue, 26 Mar 2024 13:53:00 -0000

No. Keeping this away from Microsoft.

Mark Lord modified ticket #56

Mark Lord — Tue, 26 Mar 2024 13:52:17 -0000

fdevname memory leak

Mark Lord modified ticket #56

Mark Lord — Tue, 26 Mar 2024 13:52:06 -0000

fdevname memory leak

Mark Lord posted a comment on ticket #56

Mark Lord — Tue, 26 Mar 2024 13:51:20 -0000

Not a real issue with anything. The memory involved is tiny, and everything is freed when the program exits.

Mark Lord posted a comment on ticket #12

Mark Lord — Tue, 26 Mar 2024 00:34:27 -0000

Try that and report back.

Mark Lord posted a comment on ticket #12

Mark Lord — Tue, 26 Mar 2024 00:33:57 -0000

--- hdparm-9.65/hdparm.c 2022-09-06 13:02:56.000000000 -0400 +++ hdparm/hdparm.c 2024-03-25 20:30:28.873285139 -0400 @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ * hdparm.c - Command line interface to get/set hard disk parameters. * - by Mark Lord (C) 1994-2022 -- freely distributable. */ -#define HDPARM_VERSION "v9.65" +#define HDPARM_VERSION "v9.65+" #define _LARGEFILE64_SOURCE /*for lseek64*/ #define _BSD_SOURCE /* for strtoll() */ @@ -3040,16 +3040,18 @@ static void get_security_password (int h } else if (!handle_NULL ||...

Robert Pena posted a comment on ticket #12

Robert Pena — Tue, 26 Mar 2024 00:03:47 -0000

I get this output even when using -q (quite) when setting the SATA drive password or similar when issuing the erase command. Issuing SECURITY_SET_PASS command, password=...

Robert Pena created ticket #12

Robert Pena — Mon, 25 Mar 2024 23:33:02 -0000

Prevent password in output

Carlos Lopez posted a comment on ticket #93

Carlos Lopez — Wed, 06 Mar 2024 15:59:28 -0000

I had the same issue both with a Toshiba and a Seagate driver. In the end I ended using the tool openSeaChest_FormatUnit and with that I was able to correctly change the logical sector size on both HDDs. You can download the tool from here: https://github.com/Seagate/ToolBin (binaries avail here: https://github.com/Seagate/ToolBin/tree/master/openSeaChest/bin-build/22.07.26/ ) And there is a quick guide on how to use it here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Advanced_Format#Seagate The tool its from...

Laurent Bonnaud created ticket #96

Laurent Bonnaud — Sun, 03 Mar 2024 13:31:47 -0000

hdparm -t does not display accurate bandwidth for fast SSD

Philipp Gühring created ticket #56

Philipp Gühring — Tue, 24 Oct 2023 10:05:23 -0000

fdevname memory leak

Neustradamus posted a comment on discussion Open Discussion

Neustradamus — Fri, 13 Oct 2023 23:18:02 -0000

Dear @hdparm team, @ideguy, It is possible to put the project on GitHub? Thanks in advance.

Tomasz Kłoczko posted a comment on discussion Open Discussion

Tomasz Kłoczko — Tue, 22 Aug 2023 15:54:03 -0000

Hi, Is it anywhere hdparm VCS repo? If not .. is it possible to create such repo best on github/giltlab? (because SF git interface sucks)

Nikos Barkas created ticket #55

Nikos Barkas — Wed, 24 May 2023 19:15:42 -0000

Add missing SATA and ACS/AST/APT revisions to identify

Nikos Barkas posted a comment on ticket #95

Nikos Barkas — Sat, 20 May 2023 08:56:40 -0000

Please close/delete this ticket, I have created an entry in patches.

Nikos Barkas created ticket #54

Nikos Barkas — Sat, 20 May 2023 08:54:23 -0000

Patch to add missing ssd form factors on NOMINAL FORM FACTOR

Nikos Barkas created ticket #95

Nikos Barkas — Sat, 20 May 2023 08:39:44 -0000

Add missing SSD Form Factor values on the NOMINAL FORM FACTOR

Zibri created ticket #94

Zibri — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 06:26:32 -0000

sanitize crypto scramble not correct

David Okamoto created ticket #11

David Okamoto — Tue, 24 Jan 2023 20:59:09 -0000

hdparm -C Update to display EPC check power mode states

dgcampea created ticket #93

dgcampea — Sun, 04 Dec 2022 14:16:07 -0000

set-sector-size and -Istdout woes with TOSHIBA MG09ACA18TE

Beren Scott created ticket #25

Beren Scott — Fri, 18 Nov 2022 10:30:21 -0000

Security as a background process

Mark Lord posted a comment on ticket #92

Mark Lord — Sun, 23 Oct 2022 11:51:19 -0000

I have no idea what you are asking. Both '-y' and '-Y' work as intended for me -- I use them regularly, and one can even verify them by using '-C' afterward to read back the (new) drive state.

Mark Lord modified ticket #92

Mark Lord — Sun, 23 Oct 2022 11:51:19 -0000

Sleep Now and Stand By Now.

Mark Lord posted a comment on ticket #92

Mark Lord — Sun, 23 Oct 2022 11:50:55 -0000

I have no idea what you are asking. Both '-y' and '-Y' work as intended for me -- I use them regularly, and one can even verify them by using '-C' afterward to read back the (new) drive state.

Beren Scott created ticket #92

Beren Scott — Sun, 23 Oct 2022 07:19:25 -0000

Sleep Now and Stand By Now.

Ratio posted a comment on ticket #53

Ratio — Fri, 07 Oct 2022 19:36:08 -0000

Parsing in other software: https://github.com/doug-gilbert/sg3_utils/blob/main/lib/sg_lib.c#L1840 Note about incorrect byte order i fixed there: https://github.com/doug-gilbert/sg3_utils/pull/25

Ratio created ticket #53

Ratio — Fri, 07 Oct 2022 19:28:01 -0000

Fix parsing sense data

Mark Lord created a blog post

Mark Lord — Wed, 07 Sep 2022 17:22:11 -0000

hdparm-9.65 is released

hdparm released /hdparm/hdparm-9.65.tar.gz

hdparm — Wed, 07 Sep 2022 17:21:04 -0000

Mark Lord modified ticket #52

Mark Lord — Tue, 06 Sep 2022 17:07:44 -0000

Fix built with glibc 2.36

Mark Lord posted a comment on ticket #52

Mark Lord — Tue, 06 Sep 2022 17:07:44 -0000

Okay, I'll put that #ifndef in place for v9.65 and hope that it does more good than harm. Thanks

Mark Lord modified ticket #91

Mark Lord — Tue, 23 Aug 2022 02:15:53 -0000

`set-sector-size` out of range

Mark Lord posted a comment on ticket #91

Mark Lord — Tue, 23 Aug 2022 02:15:53 -0000

Yes, that got fixed ages ago! :)

copyliu posted a comment on ticket #91

copyliu — Tue, 23 Aug 2022 02:02:37 -0000

oh , debian stable provided hdparm version is 9.60, update to newest hdparm everything is good :)

copyliu created ticket #91

copyliu — Tue, 23 Aug 2022 01:56:24 -0000

`set-sector-size` out of range

Dirk Mueller posted a comment on ticket #52

Dirk Mueller — Tue, 09 Aug 2022 20:52:02 -0000

one option is to make an ifdef around the include of linux/fs.h: #ifndef FSCONFIG_SET_FLAG #include #endif

Dirk Mueller posted a comment on ticket #52

Dirk Mueller — Tue, 09 Aug 2022 12:00:25 -0000

if at all this depends on the glibc version I think. the patch looks good to me. I have tested the following patch against glibc 2.19 and gcc 4.8, which is the oldest I still have around, and it compiles flawless. I have removed all linux/ includes as they should come via glibc (via sys/) instead: --- hdparm-9.64/hdparm.c +++ hdparm-9.64/hdparm.c @@ -24,9 +24,6 @@ #include #include #include -#include -#include -#include ...

Timo Gurr posted a comment on ticket #52

Timo Gurr — Thu, 04 Aug 2022 12:05:17 -0000

This shouldn't have anything to do with GCC(?). At least for my tests hdparm 9.64 with the patch applied compiled fine on two systems, one with glibc 2.35 and one with glibc 2.36 where it failed to build without the patch.

Mark Lord posted a comment on ticket #52

Mark Lord — Fri, 29 Jul 2022 20:36:35 -0000

Thanks. But doing this will break builds with older versions. Can you make it conditional upon the version of GCC ?

Khem Raj posted a comment on ticket #52

Khem Raj — Fri, 29 Jul 2022 20:10:10 -0000

proposed fix

Khem Raj created ticket #52

Khem Raj — Fri, 29 Jul 2022 20:07:31 -0000

Fix built with glibc 2.36

Mark Lord created a blog post

Mark Lord — Sat, 09 Jul 2022 01:28:45 -0000

hdparm-9.64 is released

hdparm released /hdparm/hdparm-9.64.tar.gz

hdparm — Sat, 09 Jul 2022 01:28:03 -0000

Jose Maria Mauro created ticket #10

Jose Maria Mauro — Fri, 20 May 2022 17:56:31 -0000

Issue trying to secure erase.

getsnoopy created ticket #51

getsnoopy — Mon, 09 May 2022 22:37:42 -0000

Fix for some unit formatting issues

Mark Lord created a blog post

Mark Lord — Mon, 10 Jan 2022 16:57:21 -0000

hdparm-9.63 is released

hdparm released /hdparm/hdparm-9.63.tar.gz

hdparm — Mon, 10 Jan 2022 16:55:03 -0000

Mark Lord posted a comment on ticket #90

Mark Lord — Mon, 10 Jan 2022 16:54:11 -0000

I have renamed the new flag to be "--sanitize-overwrite-passes" to avoid confusion with existing flags where "-pass" refers to a password. Otherwise, applied for hdparm-9.63.

Michal Grzedzicki posted a comment on ticket #90

Michal Grzedzicki — Mon, 10 Jan 2022 13:19:48 -0000

Hi Mark, did you have a time to look at the path bellow ?

Michal Grzedzicki posted a comment on ticket #90

Michal Grzedzicki — Tue, 04 Jan 2022 13:59:20 -0000

adding patch adding option to specify the pass count

Mark Lord modified ticket #90

Mark Lord — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 01:35:42 -0000

hdparm --sanitize-overwrite do not have an option to change the count parameter and default value

Mark Lord posted a comment on ticket #90

Mark Lord — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 01:35:42 -0000

Not a bug. It does what one asks it to do. If one wants just a single-pass erase, then use "--security-erase" instead. But I'm totally open to anyone who wants to submit a patch which adds a command-line option to specify the exact number of sanitize cycles. Cheers

Beren Scott posted a comment on discussion Open Discussion

Beren Scott — Wed, 29 Dec 2021 00:21:27 -0000

I'm looking through the source code, and I see provisions such as: switch (sanitize_feature) { case SANITIZE_STATUS_EXT: printf("Sanitize status:\n"); sanitize_state = get_sanitize_state(r.hob.nsect); sanitize_normal_output(sanitize_state, &r); break; When I run an enhanced secure erase command, I simply get nothing, it states that it's performing the erase, but nothing changes, then eventually at 30 minutes the process ends. Am I doing something wrong? How do I monitor this process?

Michal Grzedzicki created ticket #90

Michal Grzedzicki — Wed, 22 Dec 2021 16:42:10 -0000

hdparm --sanitize-overwrite do not have an option to change the count parameter and default value

stoatwblr posted a comment on ticket #89

stoatwblr — Mon, 13 Dec 2021 15:27:54 -0000

addendum, this looks mpt3sas specific, the sata interfaces aren't timing out after all

stoatwblr created ticket #89

stoatwblr — Mon, 13 Dec 2021 15:09:01 -0000

scsi timeouts in latest ubuntu kernels

Martin Guy posted a comment on ticket #88

Martin Guy — Wed, 22 Sep 2021 16:25:19 -0000

On 22/09/2021, Mark Lord ideguy@users.sourceforge.net wrote: Applied, thanks. I especially like how it nicely handles "0" as well as "1". :) Oh yes :) The second case instead always has plural hours and never 1 minute. If it ever gets internationalized this will all need reworking, but for now... Blessings & thanks M

Mark Lord posted a comment on ticket #88

Mark Lord — Wed, 22 Sep 2021 15:48:21 -0000

Applied, thanks. I especially like how it nicely handles "0" as well as "1". :)

Mark Lord modified ticket #88

Mark Lord — Wed, 22 Sep 2021 15:48:21 -0000

hdparm -I 12 says "(1 minutes)" and -I 242 "(1 hours)"

Norman Diamond posted a comment on ticket #87

Norman Diamond — Wed, 25 Aug 2021 21:15:47 -0000

"I have no idea why the compiler is treating bit shift output as signed value performing sign extension instead of zero extension." The reason is that unsigned short promotes to signed int unless short and int have the same length. ISO C language standard, section 6.3.1.1. Mr. Lord fixed hdparm but C is unfixable.

Martin Guy created ticket #88

Martin Guy — Wed, 18 Aug 2021 23:48:44 -0000

hdparm -I 12 says "(1 minutes)" and -I 242 "(1 hours)"

Mark Lord modified ticket #84

Mark Lord — Tue, 22 Jun 2021 16:46:38 -0000

hdparm -I /dev/sda crashes device

Mark Lord posted a comment on ticket #84

Mark Lord — Tue, 22 Jun 2021 16:46:38 -0000

Kernel (libata) bug, not hdparm.

Siegfried Schnieders posted a comment on ticket #84

Siegfried Schnieders — Tue, 22 Jun 2021 15:01:03 -0000

The error still exists in versoin 9.62.

Mark Lord modified ticket #87

Mark Lord — Mon, 10 May 2021 15:07:18 -0000

hdparm --dco-identify reports invalid value for Real max sectors

Mark Lord posted a comment on ticket #87

Mark Lord — Mon, 10 May 2021 15:07:17 -0000

Fix this and similar bugs elsewhere in the code. hdparm-9.62 now available.

Mark Lord created a blog post

Mark Lord — Mon, 10 May 2021 15:06:14 -0000

hdparm-9.62 is released

hdparm released /hdparm/hdparm-9.62.tar.gz

hdparm — Mon, 10 May 2021 15:05:03 -0000

Michal Grzedzicki created ticket #87

Michal Grzedzicki — Mon, 10 May 2021 14:23:31 -0000

hdparm --dco-identify reports invalid value for Real max sectors

Mark Lord created a blog post

Mark Lord — Mon, 26 Apr 2021 14:15:52 -0000

hdparm-9.61 is released

hdparm released /hdparm/hdparm-9.61.tar.gz

hdparm — Mon, 26 Apr 2021 14:14:08 -0000

hdparm released /hdparm/hdparm-9.61.tar.tz

hdparm — Mon, 26 Apr 2021 14:13:03 -0000

Mark Lord posted a comment on ticket #10

Mark Lord — Wed, 13 Jan 2021 19:41:38 -0000

-J Get/set Western DIgital "Idle3" timeout for a WDC "Green" drive (DANGEROUS) There is support in there, but this was written many years ago, and WD may have changed the protocol. So it might still work, or it might brick your drive. Your call. WD doesn't tell us how it works, so that's the best shot at it for now.

mirh posted a comment on ticket #10

mirh — Wed, 13 Jan 2021 18:10:59 -0000

This should have been added in version 9.38. Though documentation claims it's not somehow as good as it could. Is idle3ctl also lacking in this regard?

Mark Lord created a blog post

Mark Lord — Sat, 21 Nov 2020 15:12:40 -0000

hdparm-9.60 is released