A tool/util to manage ATA features/commands?

[NRA]

There came a day, and there was a night, and then I thought: why there're so few pieces of software to manage ATA features/commands?

Some utils can manage AAM, some can go with APM, some reset DCO or set the transfer mode and so on, but except HDAT2 for DOS there's almost no software to manage a set of HDD features, right?

Why, HDAT2 is ok, but it doesn't work well with some HDD models--sometimes it triggers fancy errs, sometimes shows that everything is fine while no changes applied and so on; perhaps an updated version would do.

So far, does somebody know an appropriate tool for HDD features setup, if any?

TY

[fzabkar]

There are hdparm (SATA/PATA) and sdparm (SCSI).

http://hdparm.sourceforge.net
http://sg.danny.cz/sg/sdparm.html

[NRA]

Thank you, fzabkar.

Indeed, after some Gentoo or ALT* didn't get my SCSI right, I haven't paid *nix enough attention, yet now I'm glad you mentioned about it. I just downloaded a couple of fresh distros and find them quite appropriate and handy, let alone worthy. Although GUI-homefans would desperately scream in disgust in vain, I find command prompt ok, however, it does require to be more attentive

But how come such features setup is also no really popular with computer-literate people? I mean there're so many different and contradictory comments regarding the very same HDD's, where people keep forgetting that AAM, APM, DCO and other features do really matter and make great difference; why so few pieces of software, anyway?


TY