Yes, thank you very much. That did help me out. Are there any kind of
limitations with using SATA and sdparm? Or is it treated exactly the
same way a SCSI device is? (I guess I'm asking are there certain options
which are specific to SCSI devices). I really wouldn't want to loose my
data from my hard drive because, because of a stupid mistake I made.
Gee, didn't Hans mention at the last East side meeting that there should
be some kind of Data Rescue/Recovery, committee (for lack of a better
term)

Would anyone be interested?



I've been having issues with my email
On Sat, 2007-04-21 at 08:58 -0700, Alan Dayley wrote:
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> Kevin Faulkner wrote:
> > hdparm is to IDE type devices as sdparm is to SCSI devices. I know that
> > Linux sees SATA devices as /dev/sd*, I also know that you need to build
> > your kernel with SCSI support if you plan on using any kind of SATA
> > device, does this mean that you would have to sdparm for SATA devices? I
> > really don't want to loose my hard drive experimenting, perhaps someone
> > knows, if not then I will experiment. 
> 
> The ATA Identify or SCSI Inquiry are safe commands to test.  My computer
> has a SATA drive at /dev/sda.  My results:
> 
> # hdparm -i /dev/sda
> 
> /dev/sda:
>  HDIO_GET_IDENTITY failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device
> 
> # sdparm --inquiry /dev/sda
>     /dev/sda: ATA       Hitachi HTS54168  SB2O
> Device identification VPD page:
>   Addressed logical unit:
>     desig_type: vendor specific [0x0],  code_set: ASCII
>  00     20 20 20 20 20 20 53 42  32 32 30 34 53 47 43 37          SB2204SGC7
>  10     4e 4c 54 45                                         NLTE
>     desig_type: T10 vendor identification,  code_set: ASCII
>       vendor id: ATA
>       vendor specific: Hitachi HTS541680J9SA00
> SB2204SGC7NLTE
> #
> 
> Does that help?
> 
> Alan
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