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LPI Certification / CompTIA Linux+ Practice Test

Category - LINUX

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John wants to get more information about the IDE hard drive in his system. Which of the following commands should he use from the shell prompt?
  1. hddump
  2. hdparm
  3. lsusb
  4. sg_scan
Explanation
Answer - B - He should use the hdparm command to get more information about the IDE hard drive in his system.

Key Takeaway: Hdparm is a command line utility for Linux to set and view SATA and IDE hard disk hardware parameters. It can set parameters such as drive caches, sleep mode, power management, acoustic management, and DMA settings.
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