"Fred J." <phddas@yahoo.com> wrote: > > fred@debian:~$ hdparm -I /dev/hda > hda hda1 > fred@debian:~$ hdparm -I /dev/hda > bash: hdparm: command not found > fred@debian:~$ hdparm -I > bash: hdparm: command not found > fred@debian:~$ You must be root. And you might what to pipe through 'less', because the output can be quite long: hdparm -I /dev/hda | less Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein)