The smartmontools project maintains a database of drives (mostly for SMART reporting purposes); you might ask them if they'd extend their database to handle this information. On 27 Jul 2011, at 1225, Yasha Karant wrote:
> I have found that modern CUPS printer support configuration tools under EL > have a fairly complete data base of the drivers/parameters needed for vendor > specific printers. > To some extent, this seems to include even reverse engineered data for > printers for which the vendor will not provide any detailed public > specifications and only provides proprietary "drivers" to the monopoly (and > sometimes, Apple). > > Given various comments and suggestions that have appeared concerning the > proper Linux formatting/partitioning and use of some current SATA hard drives > that no longer present the 512 byte standard to the operating system, could > SL (or RH or something equivalent to the CUPS team or ...) provide a data > base for drives similar to the CUPS one for printers? For example, during the > initial installation of either a new drive or a new major release of the OS > (e.g., going from EL 5 to EL 6), the drive partitioning/formatting utility > would recognize the drive(s) in use and automatically set either acceptable > or "optimal" parameters. > > If such a data base exists, relevant URLs and/or RPMs would be appreciated. > > Yasha Karant
