On May 26, 2014, at 3:32 AM, Guenther Alka via illumos-discuss 
<[email protected]> wrote:

> I want to add two links about
> 
> "Exploring the Relationship between spare area and performance consistency in 
> modern SSDs"
> http://www.anandtech.com/show/6489/playing-with-op
> 
> and hdat2, a nice tool to manage host protected areas as an easy to use 
> option to Linux hdparm
> http://www.hdat2.com/files/cookbook_v11.pdf
> 
> ps
> it seems there is no tool on Solarish to manage HPAs or spare areas.
> (I have checked Solaris versions of sdparm and sg3_utils)

See the man page for sg_sat_set_features

Setting the max sector count is just a simple ATA command. The reason it isn't 
front-and-center
in your searches is because this is a more difficult way to manage the problem 
than the other
solutions you've been offered. Basically, faking out the OS is an idea for dumb 
OSes.
 -- richard

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