The smartmontools project maintains a database of drives (mostly for SMART reporting purposes); you might ask them if they'd extend their database to handle this information. 
 
On 27 Jul 2011, at 1225, Yasha Karant wrote:

> I have found that modern CUPS printer support configuration tools under EL have a fairly complete data base of the drivers/parameters needed for vendor specific printers.
> To some extent, this seems to include even reverse engineered data for printers for which the vendor will not provide any detailed public specifications and only provides proprietary "drivers" to the monopoly (and sometimes, Apple).
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> Given various comments and suggestions that have appeared concerning the proper Linux formatting/partitioning and use of some current SATA hard drives that no longer present the 512 byte standard to the operating system, could SL (or RH or something equivalent to the CUPS team or ...) provide a data base for drives similar to the CUPS one for printers? For example, during the initial installation of either a new drive or a new major release of the OS (e.g., going from EL 5 to EL 6), the drive partitioning/formatting utility would recognize the drive(s) in use and automatically set either acceptable or "optimal" parameters.
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> If such a data base exists, relevant URLs and/or RPMs would be appreciated.
> 
> Yasha Karant