From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mark Lord Subject: Re: SATA Drive Information (vs hdparm -i)? Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 21:50:44 -0400 Message-ID: <43335F74.60506@rtr.ca> References: <7744a2840509221206254d2109@mail.gmail.com> <43334AFF.8010901@torque.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from cpu1185.adsl.bellglobal.com ([207.236.110.166]:20127 "EHLO mail.rtr.ca") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751257AbVIWBus (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Sep 2005 21:50:48 -0400 In-Reply-To: <43334AFF.8010901@torque.net> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: dougg@torque.net Cc: Richard Bollinger , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org The current hdparm release does "-i" and "-I" out of the box, along with many other "-[A-Z]" options, assuming your kernel has the widely used libata "passthru" patch applied. Since libata is in-theory to be decoupled from the SCSI layer at some point, it might be unwise to rely on emulated SCSI commands for detailed SATA info. Cheers