From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: James Courtier-Dutton Subject: libata-passthrough problem. Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2005 10:55:52 +0000 Message-ID: <4375CA38.9000905@superbug.demon.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from anchor-post-35.mail.demon.net ([194.217.242.85]:50956 "EHLO anchor-post-35.mail.demon.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932344AbVKLLzt (ORCPT ); Sat, 12 Nov 2005 06:55:49 -0500 Received: from superbug.demon.co.uk ([80.176.146.252] helo=[192.168.1.10]) by anchor-post-35.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 4.42) id 1Eatsm-000EKh-In for linux-ide@vger.kernel.org; Sat, 12 Nov 2005 11:49:21 +0000 Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org I am using (at 12-Nov-2005) git clone rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev.git uname -r 2.6.15-rc1-gcd52d1ee I have found that although smartctl correctly displays different information for /dev/sda and /dev/sdb, hdparm does not. hdparm displays the same info for /dev/sda and /dev/sdb i.e. hdparm -I /dev/sdb actually returns the information about /dev/sda See below for details. Is this a bug in hdparm or libata-devel ? James # smartctl -a /dev/sda smartctl version 5.33 [i686-pc-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-4 Bruce Allen Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ Device: ATA ST3300831AS Version: 3.01 # smartctl -a /dev/sdb smartctl version 5.33 [i686-pc-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-4 Bruce Allen Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ Device: ATA ST3160023AS Version: 3.18 # hdparm -I /dev/sda /dev/sda: ATA device, with non-removable media Model Number: ST3300831AS Serial Number: 3NF0A9CQ Firmware Revision: 3.01 ... # hdparm -I /dev/sdb /dev/sdb: ATA device, with non-removable media Model Number: ST3300831AS Serial Number: 3NF0A9CQ Firmware Revision: 3.01