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Bugs:
- Allow SCSI device names with more than one character (e.g. sdaa) in case
  there are more than 26 SCSI targets.

   in the "debian" directory with the names hd-idle.init and hd-idle.default

   this effort is meant to allow hd-idle to become an official Debian package
 * Man page for hd-idle

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Bugs
- Use %u in dprintf() when reporting number of reads and writes (the
  corresponding variable is an unsigned int).
- Fix example in README where the parameter "-a" was written as "-n".

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Features
- In case the SCSI stop unit command fails with "check condition", print a
  hex dump of the sense buffer to stderr. This is supposed to help
  debugging.

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Features
- The parameter "-a" now also supports symlinks for disk names. Thus, disks
  can be specified using something like /dev/disk/by-uuid/... Use "-d" to
  verify that the resulting disk name is what you want.

  Please note that disk names are resolved to device nodes at startup. Also,
  since many entries in /dev/disk/by-xxx are actually partitions, partition
  numbers are automatically removed from the resulting device node.

Bugs
- Not really a bug, but the disk name comparison used strstr which is a bit
  useless because only disks starting with "sd" and a single letter after
  that are currently considered. Replaced the comparison with strcmp()

- New parameter "-a" to allow selecting idle timeouts for individual disks;
  compatibility to previous releases is maintained by having an implicit
  default which matches all SCSI disks

Bugs
- Changed comparison operator for idle periods from '>' to '>=' to prevent
  adding one polling interval to idle time
- Changed sleep time before calling sync after updating the log file to 1s
  (from 3s) to accumulate fewer dirty blocks before synching. It's still
  a compromize but the log file is for debugging purposes, anyway. A test
  with fsync() was unsuccessful because the next bdflush-initiated sync
  still caused spin-ups.

- Comment changes; no functionality changes...