Mark's TO-DO list for hdparm: ============================ - Add "wipe-drive" functionality via SCT WRITE_SAME (or manual). - Add "surface-scan" functionality via SG READ_VERIFY. - Add --automatically-find-and-fix-media-errors - Add utility to recover data from a drive with bad sectors. - Use SCSI Inquiry for -I on ATAPI, especially with libata. - Use read()/write() for non-ATA drives with --{read,write}-sectors