Sebastian Kösters wrote: > But what das the error mean and why does it come? > > On google i did not find a clear answer >>>HDIO_DRIVE_CMD(null) (wait for flush complete) failed: Inappropriate ioctl >>>for device It looks like the SATA driver in use rejects this attempt by hdparm to use an ioctl. Ioctls are ways to pass commands and requests to a driver from userspace that do not fit the "file" semantics of a device node that communicates with the driver. For example, you can do stuff like cat /dev/dsp > /dev/dsp to copy audio in into your audio out using file semantics, but to set the sample rate for the audio you use an ioctl on /dev/dsp outside of the familiar open/read/write/seek/close file semantics. Since the "wait for flush complete" ioctl is not really critical to operation of the drive, and if it fails to be honoured is unlikely to destroy data (except at shutdown arguably), losing that capability only screws up timing actions like on hdparm. Hence it looks harmless. -Andy
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