toothandnail has packaged the latest version of hdparm for VL 5.9 and VL 5.9.1.
Package: hdparm-9.3-i586-1vl59.tlz
MD5: 4727f27a6979a45ff261a1689601abc6
Package Size: 55K
Installed Size: 140K
Sources:
http://vectorlinux.osuosl.org/veclinux-5.9/source/testing/base/hdparmhdparm: hdparm (read/set hard drive parameters)
hdparm:
hdparm: hdparm provides a command line interface to a number of hard drive
hdparm: ooctls supported by the Linux ATA/IDE device driver subsysem. It
hdparm: may be used to tune hard drive performance
hdparm:
hdparm:
hdparm:
hdparm: License: GPL
hdparm: Authors: http://sourceforge.net/projects/hdparm/
hdparm: Website: Mark Lord
After testing this package, please take a moment and come back to this thread to let us know how it works for you.