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Apr 7, 2006 - 6.3 -> 6.6 - Removed the note about trouble with Slackware 8.1, I no longer have access to anything that old - Only run removepkg when it exists - Added uninstall notes to the bottom Oct 20, 2005 - 6.1 -> 6.3 - Updated Slackware note for 10.2 - Run chown -R root:root on the source directory when $UID = 0 - 5.9 is no longer on ibiblio, added a note about the build problem and removed the 5.9 section - Removed the note about making a symlink in /usr/sbin, just add one - Added 'strip /sbin/hdparm' to strip the binary. On boxes of mine that run the stable binutils (2.16.x) this did nothing, on one that runs the binutils beta (2.16.91.0.2) it made it a whopping 433 bytes smaller May 12, 2005 - Added 6.1 to the top, leaving 5.9 at the bottom - Removed make, gcc, binutils, fileutils/coreutils links - Moved source directory (see note <a href="howtos.php?msd">here</a>) - Changed home page link from: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/system/hardware/ to: http://sourceforge.net/projects/hdparm/ - Rearranged find arguments to shut up the new version of find Feb 17, 2005 - 5.8 -> 5.9 Dec 20, 2004 - 5.7 -> 5.8 Sep 2, 2004 - 5.5 -> 5.7 - Added " or coreutils" to the fileutils prerequisite - Added note about the version that comes with Slack 10 Feb 3, 2004 - 5.4 -> 5.5 - Removed instructions for removing the Slackware installed hdparm in the 'bin' package, this only applied to Slackware 8.0 and less - Added note about the version that comes with Slackware 9.0 and 9.1 - Added (obvious) prerequisites - Added generic-ish example to the bottom Aug 7, 2003 - Added creation of ~/backup before the part that modifies the /var/adm/packages/bin* file - Added note about the path difference - Create ~/installed (if it's not there) as mode 700 Jun 5, 2003 - 5.3 -> 5.4 Jan 17, 2003 - Updated note about how hdparm is in own pkg in Slack 8.1 Nov 26, 2002 - 5.2 -> 5.3 - Added old tarball and source dir removal Jul 26, 2002 - Updated removal instructions for old version of < Slack 8.1