piccolino81, I don't believe your startup problems are caused by this bug,
which appears to be fixed, as "hdparm -f" does not cause the init script to
fail anymore.
I guess that you see the same error on tty1, regardless of if the bootup
succeeds or not. If that's the case, you should file a new
I'm using Kubuntu Gutsy (7.10).
As requested I executed the following command (hdc is my DVD-CDRW-
Combo):
$ sudo hdparm -q -f /dev/hdd && echo $?
BLKFLSBUF failed: Function not implemented
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Additionally I've the problem that my notebook needs at least 3 bootups
until it loads correctly into KD
In Gutsy there's no init script anymore, but /lib/udev/hdparm instead, which
gets called through udev for hd[a-z] devices.
It still calls "flush":
/sbin/hdparm -q -f $DISC 2>/dev/null || ret=$?
However, hdparm does not appear to return an error in this case anymore:
$ sudo hdparm -q -f /dev/hdd &
