bug or feature: hdparm functionality removed from initscripts-8.11.1-1?

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Sun, 23 Apr 2006, Antonio Olivares wrote:

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> --- "Philippe A." <futhark77 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> I am running FC4.
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> I would suspect that it is a bug.
> On a system which was running FC4, I could not even do
> # hdparm -d1 /dev/hdc
> to play dvd's better and turn on dma.  I got
> permission denied.  I have installed FC5 on it and
> this problem has gone away, just others have taken the
> place of this one.

Nope, the OP's issue (/etc/sysconfig/harddisks missing) is a feature. 
See Bugzilla #157673 and this thread at fedora-devel-list: 
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2005-August/msg00201.html.

Your problem may be something else, though.

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