Re: [PATCH] 2.5.14 IDE 57

Dave Jones (davej@suse.de)
Tue, 7 May 2002 16:04:35 +0200


On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 03:56:43PM +0200, Mikael Pettersson wrote:
> hdparm -i requires root privs.

hdparm itself doesn't, but you must be able to read /dev/hd*
Some distros have this owned by group 'disk' for eg.
Adding yourself as a member of this group should allow you to
use hdparm without becoming root.

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