From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ric Wheeler Subject: Re: SATA Drive Information (vs hdparm -i)? Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 21:33:52 -0400 Message-ID: <43335B80.5070308@emc.com> References: <7744a2840509221206254d2109@mail.gmail.com> <43334AFF.8010901@torque.net> <7744a28405092218012aa90cd0@mail.gmail.com> <43335755.501@emc.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mailhub.lss.emc.com ([168.159.2.31]:47821 "EHLO mailhub.lss.emc.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751124AbVIWBd5 (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Sep 2005 21:33:57 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: "Randy.Dunlap" Cc: Richard Bollinger , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Randy.Dunlap wrote: >On Thu, 22 Sep 2005, Ric Wheeler wrote: > > > >>Richard Bollinger wrote: >> >> >> >>>I'm specifically looking for something that will reveal the serial >>>number of each SATA drive. >>>- >>> >>> >>> >>hdparm (modified to run against libata SCSI drives) does show the serial >>number: >> >>[root@c001n01 root]# hdparm -I /dev/sda >> >>/dev/sda: >> >>ATA device, with non-removable media >> Model Number: Maxtor 6B300S0 >> Serial Number: B60J1DTH >> Firmware Revision: BANC1B70 >> >> > >and where is that patch?... > > > If you look at the hdparm homepage (http://freshmeat.net/projects/hdparm/) you will see a thread on this - you need a kernel that supports libata passthru, ric