Possibility of hdparm on Mac OS X

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Aug 26, 2010, at 23:52, Scott Haneda wrote:

> http://sourceforge.net/projects/hdparm/support
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> Hello, the above software seems to run on Linux fine, I am not aware of anyone getting it to work on Mac OS X.  Since I know very little about porting this one over, and I suspect it is not going to be a normal port because the nature of the app is a bit lower level than most, I wanted to ask here first.
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> Is it even possible to make this software work on OS X or are the architectures too different?  If it is possible, what do you guys think?
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> The one command I am after is ATA Secure Erase, the rest would be nice, but that is the main one.

You should talk to the developers of hdparm to ask if it works on Mac OS X. If it does, we should be able to make a port for it. If it does not, then the developers have some work to do before we can make a port.