On Thu, 2010-08-19 at 17:17 +0100, mike cloaked wrote: > if I plug the old (not-very-healthy!) disk in to a sata-to-usb > external adapter, and then hotplug the usb cable into the new machine > on a usb port, I am guessing that I will not be able to pass hdparm > commands to the old disk connected in this way It depends on the chips in the adapters (see hdparm docs). Mine don't support it, and the only one of them that I can warn you about is the Seagate desktop expansion drive, the others have no branding. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
