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:
> > 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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