toothandnail has packaged the latest version of hdparm for VL 5.9 & VL 5.9.1.
Package: hdparm-9.6-i586-1vl59.tlz
MD5: 92d36423408a8a2c337948ee3d3cd79f
Package Size: 56K
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: Mark Lord
hdparm: Website: http://sourceforge.net/projects/hdparm/
After testing this package please come back to this thread and let us know how it works for you.