Re: hdparm 6.9-1 will not function as expected

2012-10-04 Thread Sean Murphy
On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 8:32 AM, Earnie Boyd wrote: > On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 7:30 AM, Sean Murphy wrote: >> >> That did it. Placed the executable in /bin, and it ran as expected. >> > > You should not move /usr/sbin files to /bin. You should use > /usr/sbin/BINARY or add /usr/sbin to the PATH var

Re: hdparm 6.9-1 will not function as expected

2012-10-04 Thread Earnie Boyd
On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 7:30 AM, Sean Murphy wrote: > > That did it. Placed the executable in /bin, and it ran as expected. > You should not move /usr/sbin files to /bin. You should use /usr/sbin/BINARY or add /usr/sbin to the PATH variable. You'll get confused when an update seemingly replaces

Re: hdparm 6.9-1 will not function as expected

2012-10-04 Thread Sean Murphy
On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 10:31 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > On 10/3/2012 8:26 PM, Sean Murphy wrote: > > > Try /usr/sbin/hdparm.exe. /usr/sbin is not in your path by default. > > -- > Larry > > _ > > A: Yes. >> Q: Are you sure?

Re: hdparm 6.9-1 will not function as expected

2012-10-03 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 10/3/2012 8:26 PM, Sean Murphy wrote: Hello all, Decided to check out hdparm today after reading about the utility. After install, I attempted to run the utility by executing a check on my computer's hard drive and received a message from bash stating that the hdparm command could not be fou

hdparm 6.9-1 will not function as expected

2012-10-03 Thread Sean Murphy
Hello all, Decided to check out hdparm today after reading about the utility. After install, I attempted to run the utility by executing a check on my computer's hard drive and received a message from bash stating that the hdparm command could not be found. Can anyone else confirm this behavior?