Comments on: Windows programming is nasty

By: cpbotha

cpbotha — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 15:24:23 +0000

Wow, very cool! Thanks for making and mentioning.

By: Christian Franke

Christian Franke — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:15:21 +0000

On Feb 9th, 2006 at 12:41, Lars Andersson wrote:
> I have been searching for a â€œhdparmâ€ for windows!

In case someone it still interested:
http://hdparm-win32.dyndns.org/hdparm/
Available as Win32 native or Cygwin release.

Uses documented IOCTL_ATA_PASS_THROUGH if available (>= XP SP2), else undocumented IOCTL_IDE_PASS_THROUGH.

Enjoy,
Christian

By: luis

luis — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 21:57:42 +0000

the function work fine for fisical driver, but i have a usb disk, this not work, how make the identify to read a manufactor serial number from disk in the usb

By: Lars Andersson

Lars Andersson — Thu, 09 Feb 2006 00:41:48 +0000

Hi
I have been searching for a “hdparm” for windows!
I would love to see this program developed more.

By: Charl P. Botha

Charl P. Botha — Sun, 06 Nov 2005 02:16:05 +0000

Hi Marty! Thanks very much for the patch, I've added a link to your website and the patch on my software page ( http://cpbotha.net/Software ). One day, when either of us has some time to spare, we could clean up the code and release an hdstandby work-alike for windows. :)

By: Marty Vona

Marty Vona — Sat, 08 Oct 2005 21:01:04 +0000

Charl –

Thank you very much for developing this little piece of code and for making it avalable. It is too bad that google hasn’t ranked your pages higher–it took me a lot of searching before I found your work.

Unfortunately, my drive (ST9808211A) has similar symptoms (pauses, clicks, freezes system for ~2s, repeats behavior every ~2min), but hdparm -S 0 does *not* fix it.

However, hdparm -B 255 (disable drive APM) works.

I added some code to your hdstandby.c (ver 20050226) to also disable APM:

http://people.csail.mit.edu/vona/hdstandby/hdstandby.diff

I also verified that it compiles in MinGW Developer Studio 2.05, and I built a simple project file:

http://people.csail.mit.edu/vona/hdstandby/hdstandby.mdsp

Thanks again,
Marty

By: Max Watson

Max Watson — Sun, 26 Jun 2005 08:20:21 +0000

Nice utility, found this on page 9 of google results looking for an XP spin down utility. I’m not a programmer and have nothing to compile with, but how about releasing a version that allows you to select the drive and the spin down time? I want to spin down my external USB drives.

By: Charl Botha

Charl Botha — Sat, 26 Feb 2005 18:38:23 +0000

I’ve put up the source code (and a binary) here:
http://cpbotha.net/files/hdstandby/
Sorry for the huge delay.

Use this at your own risk!

By: dang

dang — Fri, 31 Dec 2004 00:26:51 +0000

I’m having the same hard drive spindown issue with my laptop. hdparm -S 0 /dev/hda works great in linux, but there’s no solution for windoze. Are you willing to put a copy of your fix on your site, or the source code?

Thanks.
-Dang

By: iwub

iwub — Fri, 27 Aug 2004 11:24:01 +0000

Hi,
I get the code,it runs correctly.but if I want to writepage or readpage from my device,that failed to return the page content although the registers are corrected,any suggest?

thanks
BR,