Robert Hancock wrote:Agreed, I've already had problems typing faster than I think, twice, as as I hit ENTER saying "wait, that's a SCSI device" and then "wow, it worked anyway!" Nice job on the whole, but setting transfer modes is desirable, still...
Only some of the hdparm functionality is supported in libata,
That's not true. MOST hdparm functionality is supported in libata.
Only a very few things are not supported, including -d and -X,
for reasons already pointed out.
Nearly everything else works.