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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)[reply]

'hdparm -NpABC' question[edit]

On the topic of Host Protected Areas, it is noted this about the 'hdparm -N' command: "For versions of hdparm < 8, one can compare the number of sectors output from 'hdparm -I' with the number of sectors reported for the hard drive model's published statistics."

I've done quite a bit of searching, but have not found the answer as to where these "published statistics" come from. Are these statistics published to a database somewhere, or is it instead information that resides on the drive itself? If it does reside on the drive itself, could the information be manipulated to further hide the fact that HPA is enabled? 69.164.99.14 (talk) 16:15, 24 April 2012 (UTC)OCHawkeye[reply]