hdparm problem

[jd1008]

On 03/20/2015 02:29 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
> On 03/20/2015 01:24 PM, jd1008 wrote:
>> Forget it!!!
>> Either you are mixing things up or making them up.
>> I have all my messages in the sent folder.
>> I never used -m  argument.
>
> I'm not saying that you did; I was saying that there is an option m, 
> and it needs a dash in front of it.  The quote was from the list of 
> possible options showing the one in question.  Now, it may be that in 
> your context m was an argument to an option, but if so, it's ambiguous 
> and the program (which I don't have installed) was confused.  Maybe if 
> you re-ordered the options so that nothing comes after the m it might 
> work better.
Unfortunately, manpage says:

-m     Get/set  sector  count  for  multiple sector I/O on the drive.

I have no need for this, and I do not see how it helps my situation
where I cannot set the master password.