Comment 33 for bug 548513

@Jerone

Actually, we do. If you examine how /lib/udev/hdparm operates you'll find that it
does nothing unless the config file tells it to except this global apm policy which
was embedded in /lib/hdparm/hdparm-functions. The default hdparm.conf file
does nothing at all except set the 'quiet' flag.

There's nothing evil about ATA passthrough, these *are* ATA drives using
firewire or usb as the transport.

Finally, we don't have to guess at why usb is having problems either, I've
shown how easy it is to instrument the udev scripts. Let's get some more
data from those users.