In case anyone misses hdparm in porteus here is the xzm

[Kaso_Da_Zmok]

In case anyone wants hdparm on porteus here is it:
hdparm-9.37.xzm
http://www.mediafire.com/?c2qsu6ttrzf8ags

I do use it to turn off (spin down) the hdd in my laptop or desktop when i use copy2ram boot option

hdparm -y /dev/sda

Posted after 8 minutes 15 seconds:
in case here are the steps are followed to create this:

download the source:
hdparm-9.37.tar.gz

guest@porteus:~/Downloads$ tar xzf hdparm-9.37.tar.gz
guest@porteus:~/Downloads$ cd hdparm-9.37
guest@porteus:~/Downloads/hdparm-9.37$ make
root@porteus:/tmp# mkdir /tmp/hdparm
root@porteus:/tmp/hdparm# make install DESTDIR=/tmp/hdparm/
root@porteus:/tmp# dir2xzm /tmp/hdparm/ hdparm-9.37.xzm

[fanthom]

thanks for the module.

btw: this functionality is covered by 'sdparm' which is included in Porteus by default:

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"sdparm -C stop /dev/sdb"

[Kaso_Da_Zmok]

makes sense now :-) did not know about sdparm existence