I'd like to remove write protection from a device. hdparm has following command "hdparm -r0 device", but aside from reporting the state, it does nothing. If you have a buggy hardware the only option is to recompile the kernel and not invoking set_disk_ro(,1). Is there any other option? Yegor -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html