Hdparm

This is the hdparm project ("hdparm") This project was registered on SourceForge.net on Apr 17, 2005, and is described by the project team as follows: hdparm - get/set ATA/SATA drive parameters under Linux Platforms: *nix

DriveTweak is a graphical program equivilant to hdparm which allows you to tweak drive settings. GTK and KDE versions are available. Platforms: *nix

hdparm project is a Linux shell utility for viewing and manipulating various IDE drive and driver parameters. Most drives can benefit from improved performance using a command similar to "hdparm -qm8 -qu1 -qc1 -qd1 /dev/hda". Platforms: *nix

DeadCD is a minimalistic Linux livecd, based on the Debian distribution. Its goal is to provide small - the maximum size is 100 MB -, fast and feature-rich versatile system. DeadCD is minimalistic Linux live CD based on Debian that provides a small (at most 100MB), fast, feature-rich, and... Platforms: *nix

PBButtons is a daemon to handle special hardware on the Apple iBook/PowerBook/TiBook. It controls the display brightness, the sound volume, mutes the sound, changes the trackpad mode, puts the machine to sleep, or ejects the CDROM on command. PBButtonsd project also provides basic power... Platforms: *nix

chkrootkit is a tool to locally check for signs of a rootkit. It contains: - chkrootkit: shell script that checks system binaries for rootkit modification. - ifpromisc.c: checks if the interface is in promiscuous mode. - chklastlog.c: checks for lastlog deletions. - chkwtmp.c: checks for... Platforms: *nix

PAUD (Parted And Utilities Disk) is a Linux utility boot disk distribution. It fits on a single 1.44 floppy disk. It contains mc, parted, and other utilities such as filesystem utilities for ext2, ext3, and Reiserfs. It is great for partition maintenance and for rescue purposes. The latest... Platforms: *nix

Parted Magic is a ~30mb LiveCD/USB with its only purpose being partitioning hard drives. Although GParted and Parted are the main programs, the CD/USB also offers programs like partimage, testdisk, fdisk, sfdisk, dd, etc... Parted Magic is based on my work from the GParted LiveCD project and... Platforms: *nix

linHDD is a hard drive utility. Frontend to several functions of basic Linux drive utilities: hdparm, cfdisk, df, and mkfs. Nice to add a second drive from the GUI. Or use it to display free space, extended drive information and test read-speed. A convenience app, it can save a user time, avoid... Platforms: *nix

S.M.A.R.T. Linux is a bootable floppy distribution containing tool (smartmontools) for monitoring IDE/SCSI hard disks (using Self-Monitoring, Reporting and Analysis Technology). Why floppy? Probably because all other distributions containing this useful utility are CD versions [and not... Platforms: *nix