Terje Fåberg <terje_fb@yahoo.no> skrev: > I think I will try 2.6.11-rcX+libata-dev at the > weekend. I will copy the shell and hdparm into the > ramdisk, so the kernel will never even think about > touching my precious filesystems. Just did it. With the libata-dev patch hdparm _can_ read some information from the harddisk, but trying to read or set the acoustic values still returns "inappropriate ioctl for device". Regards, Terje