SOME Seagate F3 commands

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HI ALL
following SOME Seagate F3 commands
(lists out all the parameters and bytes that can be modified within the F command)
F,00,22 "RWRecoveryFlags" (disables read sparing, write sparing, and enables correction)
F,01,22 "RWRecoveryFlags" (disables read sparing, write sparing and disables correction)
F,00,22 "BGMSFlags" (disables background media scan)
F,043C,22 "PerformanceFlags" (disables offline sparing and deferred auto reallocation)
F,00,22 "ReadRetries" (disables read retries - possibly better performance in software like ddrescue)
F,,22 (resets to default - sometimes necessary to get sector access back afterward)