Tejun Heo wrote:
OT but care to make -i and -I work equivalently? Such that -i reports more detailed info and user can dump stored id block.
hdparm -I works just fine now. hdparm -i requires the HDIO_GET_IDENTITY ioctl() from drivers/ide, to retrieve the "boot time" copy of the identify block, before any mods are made by the driver. But in recent years, drivers/ide has broken it, in that it tries to maintain the "boot time" copy in sync with the on-drive copy. Kinda makes -i pointless. Is there a way to retrieve the libata cached copy of the ID block? How?
Support for IDENTIFY PACKET DEVICE would be nice too.
It already does that, using HDIO_DRIVE_CMD to retrieve it in the same way as for regular IDENTIFY DEVICE commands. In hdparm-7.0, I'll have it use ATA passthrough when possible for most/all commands. Cheers - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
