hdparm is a Linux shell utility for viewing and manipulating various IDE drive and driver parameters. Most drives can benefit from improved performance using a command similar to "hdparm -qm8 -qu1 -qc1 -qd1 /dev/hda".
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The "-I" argument now reports the maximum number of 512-byte blocks of range-data per DSM/Trim command. Consequently, hdparm and wiper.sh now use only as many LBA ranges per TRIM command as the drive can handle. The man page and the help text were cleaned up.
