On Sun, 13 Jan 2008, Tejun Heo wrote:
Does this change anything? And, yeah, I really wanna see the hdparm --Istdout too.
I applied the patch to libata-core.c. A scsi device, /dev/sdb, was recognized, but partition /dev/sdb1 (where all the data resides) is not seen. Boot log messages and hdparm output follow: Linux version 2.6.23.12 (root@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) (gcc version 4.1.1 (Gentoo 4.1.1-r3)) #5 SMP Sun Jan 13 01:07:07 EST 2008 BIOS-provided physical RAM map: BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f800 (usable) BIOS-e820: 000000000009f800 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000005fff0000 (usable) BIOS-e820: 000000005fff0000 - 000000005fff3000 (ACPI NVS) BIOS-e820: 000000005fff3000 - 0000000060000000 (ACPI data) BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved) 639MB HIGHMEM available. 896MB LOWMEM available. found SMP MP-table at 000f5320 Entering add_active_range(0, 0, 393200) 0 entries of 256 used Zone PFN ranges: DMA 0 -> 4096 Normal 4096 -> 229376 HighMem 229376 -> 393200 Movable zone start PFN for each node early_node_map[1] active PFN ranges 0: 0 -> 393200 On node 0 totalpages: 393200 DMA zone: 32 pages used for memmap DMA zone: 0 pages reserved DMA zone: 4064 pages, LIFO batch:0 Normal zone: 1760 pages used for memmap Normal zone: 223520 pages, LIFO batch:31 HighMem zone: 1279 pages used for memmap HighMem zone: 162545 pages, LIFO batch:31 Movable zone: 0 pages used for memmap DMI 2.3 present. Intel MultiProcessor Specification v1.4 Virtual Wire compatibility mode. OEM ID: OEM00000 Product ID: PROD00000000 APIC at: 0xFEE00000 Processor #0 15:2 APIC version 17 I/O APIC #2 Version 17 at 0xFEC00000. Enabling APIC mode: Flat. Using 1 I/O APICs Processors: 1 Allocating PCI resources starting at 70000000 (gap: 60000000:9ec00000) Built 1 zonelists in Zone order. Total pages: 390129 Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=p1ata2.6.23 ro root=307 ide0=ata66 ide2=ata66 ide_setup: ide0=ata66 -- OBSOLETE OPTION, WILL BE REMOVED SOON! ide_setup: ide2=ata66 -- OBSOLETE OPTION, WILL BE REMOVED SOON! mapped APIC to ffffb000 (fee00000) mapped IOAPIC to ffffa000 (fec00000) Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done. Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done. Initializing CPU#0 PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 16384 bytes) Detected 2813.563 MHz processor. Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 console [tty0] enabled Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes) Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes) Memory: 1552764k/1572800k available (3124k kernel code, 18908k reserved, 1707k data, 256k init, 655296k highmem) virtual kernel memory layout: fixmap : 0xffe1a000 - 0xfffff000 (1940 kB) pkmap : 0xff800000 - 0xffc00000 (4096 kB) vmalloc : 0xf8800000 - 0xff7fe000 ( 111 MB) lowmem : 0xc0000000 - 0xf8000000 ( 896 MB) .init : 0xc05bf000 - 0xc05ff000 ( 256 kB) .data : 0xc040d037 - 0xc05b7ebc (1707 kB) .text : 0xc0100000 - 0xc040d037 (3124 kB) Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok. Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 5631.42 BogoMIPS (lpj=11262850) Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 CPU: After generic identify, caps: bfebfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 00004400 00000000 00000000 00000000 CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D cache: 8K CPU: L2 cache: 512K CPU: Physical Processor ID: 0 CPU: After all inits, caps: bfebfbff 00000000 00000000 0000b080 00004400 00000000 00000000 00000000 Intel machine check architecture supported. Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0. CPU0: Intel P4/Xeon Extended MCE MSRs (12) available CPU0: Thermal monitoring enabled Compat vDSO mapped to ffffe000. Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. SMP alternatives: switching to UP code Freeing SMP alternatives: 17k freed CPU0: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz stepping 09 Total of 1 processors activated (5631.42 BogoMIPS). ExtINT not setup in hardware but reported by MP table ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs ..TIMER: vector=0x31 apic1=0 pin1=2 apic2=0 pin2=0 Brought up 1 CPUs NET: Registered protocol family 16 PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfb640, last bus=3 PCI: Using configuration type 1 Setting up standard PCI resources SCSI subsystem initialized libata version 2.21 loaded. usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs usbcore: registered new interface driver hub usbcore: registered new device driver usb PCI: Probing PCI hardware PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00) PCI quirk: region 1000-107f claimed by ICH4 ACPI/GPIO/TCO PCI quirk: region 1080-10bf claimed by ICH4 GPIO PCI: Transparent bridge - 0000:00:1e.0 PCI: Using IRQ router PIIX/ICH [8086/24d0] at 0000:00:1f.0 PCI->APIC IRQ transform: 0000:00:1d.0[A] -> IRQ 16 PCI->APIC IRQ transform: 0000:00:1d.1[B] -> IRQ 19 PCI->APIC IRQ transform: 0000:00:1d.2[C] -> IRQ 18 PCI->APIC IRQ transform: 0000:00:1d.3[A] -> IRQ 16 PCI->APIC IRQ transform: 0000:00:1d.7[D] -> IRQ 23 PCI->APIC IRQ transform: 0000:00:1f.1[A] -> IRQ 16 PCI->APIC IRQ transform: 0000:00:1f.3[B] -> IRQ 17 PCI->APIC IRQ transform: 0000:00:1f.5[B] -> IRQ 17 PCI->APIC IRQ transform: 0000:01:00.0[A] -> IRQ 16 PCI->APIC IRQ transform: 0000:02:01.0[A] -> IRQ 18 PCI->APIC IRQ transform: 0000:03:02.0[A] -> IRQ 22 PCI->APIC IRQ transform: 0000:03:03.0[A] -> IRQ 16 PCI->APIC IRQ transform: 0000:03:04.0[A] -> IRQ 18 PCI->APIC IRQ transform: 0000:03:04.1[A] -> IRQ 18 PCI->APIC IRQ transform: 0000:03:0a.0[A] -> IRQ 22 PCI->APIC IRQ transform: 0000:03:0c.0[A] -> IRQ 21 PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:01.0 IO window: disabled. MEM window: f0000000-f1ffffff PREFETCH window: e8000000-efffffff PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:03.0 IO window: 9000-9fff MEM window: f4000000-f40fffff PREFETCH window: disabled. PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:1e.0 IO window: a000-bfff MEM window: f2000000-f3ffffff PREFETCH window: f4100000-f41fffff PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1e.0 to 64 NET: Registered protocol family 2 Time: tsc clocksource has been installed. IP route cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes) TCP established hash table entries: 131072 (order: 8, 1572864 bytes) TCP bind hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes) TCP: Hash tables configured (established 131072 bind 65536) TCP reno registered Machine check exception polling timer started. IA-32 Microcode Update Driver: v1.14a <tigran@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> highmem bounce pool size: 64 pages Installing knfsd (copyright (C) 1996 okir@xxxxxxxxxxxx). io scheduler noop registered io scheduler anticipatory registered io scheduler deadline registered io scheduler cfq registered (default) Boot video device is 0000:01:00.0 lp: driver loaded but no devices found Real Time Clock Driver v1.12ac intel_rng: FWH not detected Linux agpgart interface v0.102 agpgart: Detected an Intel i875 Chipset. agpgart: AGP aperture is 128M @ 0xe0000000 Hangcheck: starting hangcheck timer 0.9.0 (tick is 180 seconds, margin is 60 seconds). Hangcheck: Using get_cycles(). Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ sharing disabled serial8250: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [PCSPP,TRISTATE] parport0: irq 7 detected parport0: Printer, Hewlett-Packard HP LaserJet 6P lp0: using parport0 (polling). Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077 RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size 1024 blocksize loop: module loaded Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Driver - version 7.3.20-k2 Copyright (c) 1999-2006 Intel Corporation. PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:02:01.0 to 64 e1000: 0000:02:01.0: e1000_probe: (PCI:33MHz:32-bit) 00:0d:61:19:75:47 e1000: eth0: e1000_probe: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection Linux Tulip driver version 1.1.15 (Feb 27, 2007) tulip0: EEPROM default media type Autosense. tulip0: Index #0 - Media MII (#11) described by a 21140 MII PHY (1) block. tulip0: MII transceiver #0 config 1000 status 7809 advertising 01e1. eth1: Digital DS21140 Tulip rev 34 at Port 0xa000, 00:40:05:A3:3D:B0, IRQ 22. Linux video capture interface: v2.00 bttv: driver version 0.9.17 loaded bttv: using 8 buffers with 2080k (520 pages) each for capture bttv: Bt8xx card found (0). bttv0: Bt878 (rev 2) at 0000:03:04.0, irq: 18, latency: 32, mmio: 0xf4100000 bttv0: detected: Hauppauge WinTV [card=10], PCI subsystem ID is 0070:13eb bttv0: using: Hauppauge (bt878) [card=10,autodetected] bttv0: gpio: en=00000000, out=00000000 in=00fffffb [init] bttv0: Hauppauge/Voodoo msp34xx: reset line init [5] tveeprom 0-0050: Hauppauge model 61201, rev B226, serial# 2049689 tveeprom 0-0050: tuner model is Temic 4036FY5 (idx 26, type 8) tveeprom 0-0050: TV standards NTSC(M) (eeprom 0x08) tveeprom 0-0050: audio processor is None (idx 0) tveeprom 0-0050: has no radio bttv0: Hauppauge eeprom indicates model#61201 bttv0: tuner type=8 bttv0: registered device video0 bttv0: registered device vbi0 bttv0: PLL: 28636363 => 35468950 .. ok tuner 0-0061: chip found @ 0xc2 (bt878 #0 [sw]) tuner 0-0061: type set to 8 (Temic NTSC (4036 FY5)) tuner 0-0061: type set to 8 (Temic NTSC (4036 FY5)) Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2 ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx ICH5: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:1f.1 ICH5: chipset revision 2 ICH5: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio Probing IDE interface ide0... hda: WDC WD1000BB-00CAA1, ATA DISK drive hdb: QUANTUM FIREBALL EX6.4A, ATA DISK drive hda: selected mode 0x45 hdb: selected mode 0x42 ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 Probing IDE interface ide1... hdc: TOSHIBA CD/DVDW SDR5372V, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive hdd: TDK CDRW321040B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive hdc: selected mode 0x42 hdd: selected mode 0x42 ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 Probing IDE interface ide2... Probing IDE interface ide3... Probing IDE interface ide4... Probing IDE interface ide5... hda: max request size: 128KiB hda: Host Protected Area detected. current capacity is 195369455 sectors (100029 MB) native capacity is 195371568 sectors (100030 MB) hda: Host Protected Area disabled. hda: 195371568 sectors (100030 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=65535/16/63, UDMA(100) hda: cache flushes not supported hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 < hda5 hda6 hda7 > hdb: max request size: 128KiB hdb: 12594960 sectors (6448 MB) w/418KiB Cache, CHS=13328/15/63, UDMA(33) hdb: cache flushes not supported hdb: hdb1 hdb2 hdc: ATAPI 48X DVD-ROM DVD-R CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33) Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20 hdd: ATAPI 40X CD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33) sym0: <875> rev 0x3 at pci 0000:03:03.0 irq 16 sym0: Symbios NVRAM, ID 7, Fast-20, SE, parity checking sym0: open drain IRQ line driver, using on-chip SRAM sym0: using LOAD/STORE-based firmware. sym0: SCSI BUS has been reset. scsi0 : sym-2.2.3 scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access QUANTUM VIKING II 4.5WLS 4110 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2 target0:0:0: tagged command queuing enabled, command queue depth 16. target0:0:0: Beginning Domain Validation target0:0:0: asynchronous target0:0:0: wide asynchronous target0:0:0: FAST-20 WIDE SCSI 40.0 MB/s ST (50 ns, offset 16) target0:0:0: Domain Validation skipping write tests target0:0:0: Ending Domain Validation target0:0:1: Scan at boot disabled in NVRAM target0:0:2: Scan at boot disabled in NVRAM target0:0:6: Multiple LUNs disabled in NVRAM scsi 0:0:6:0: Sequential-Access CONNER CTT8000-S 1.17 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2 target0:0:6: Beginning Domain Validation target0:0:6: asynchronous target0:0:6: FAST-5 SCSI 5.0 MB/s ST (200 ns, offset 15) target0:0:6: Domain Validation skipping write tests target0:0:6: Ending Domain Validation target0:0:8: Scan at boot disabled in NVRAM target0:0:9: Scan at boot disabled in NVRAM target0:0:10: Scan at boot disabled in NVRAM target0:0:11: Scan at boot disabled in NVRAM target0:0:12: Scan at boot disabled in NVRAM target0:0:13: Scan at boot disabled in NVRAM target0:0:14: Scan at boot disabled in NVRAM target0:0:15: Scan at boot disabled in NVRAM st: Version 20070203, fixed bufsize 32768, s/g segs 256 st 0:0:6:0: Attached scsi tape st0 st 0:0:6:0: st0: try direct i/o: yes (alignment 512 B) sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 8910423 512-byte hardware sectors (4562 MB) sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: b3 00 00 08 sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 8910423 512-byte hardware sectors (4562 MB) sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: b3 00 00 08 sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4 sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0 st 0:0:6:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 1 pata_it821x: controller in smart mode. PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:03:0c.0 to 64 scsi1 : pata_it821x scsi2 : pata_it821x ata1: PATA max MWDMA2 cmd 0x0001a810 ctl 0x0001ac02 bmdma 0x0001b800 irq 21 ata2: PATA max MWDMA2 cmd 0x0001b010 ctl 0x0001b402 bmdma 0x0001b808 irq 21 ata1.00: ATA-0: Integrated Technology Express Inc, , max MWDMA2 ata1.00: 0 sectors, multi 0, CHS 0/0/0 ata1.00: Drive reports diagnostics failure. This may indicate a drive ata1.00: fault or invalid emulation. Contact drive vendor for information. IT821x RAID1 volume. ata1.00: configured for PIO scsi 1:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA Integrated Techn n/a PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] Very big device. Trying to use READ CAPACITY(16). sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] 0 512-byte hardware sectors (0 MB) sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] Write cache: disabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk sd 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0 I2O subsystem v1.325 i2o: max drivers = 8 I2O Configuration OSM v1.323 I2O Bus Adapter OSM v1.317 I2O Block Device OSM v1.325 I2O SCSI Peripheral OSM v1.316 I2O ProcFS OSM v1.316 Fusion MPT base driver 3.04.05 Copyright (c) 1999-2007 LSI Logic Corporation Fusion MPT SPI Host driver 3.04.05 ohci1394: fw-host0: OHCI-1394 1.1 (PCI): IRQ=[22] MMIO=[f3006000-f30067ff] Max Packet=[2048] IR/IT contexts=[4/8] ieee1394: raw1394: /dev/raw1394 device initialized kvm: no hardware support usbmon: debugfs is not available PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.7 to 64 ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: EHCI Host Controller ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1 PCI: cache line size of 128 is not supported by device 0000:00:1d.7 ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: irq 23, io mem 0xf4200000 ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: USB 2.0 started, EHCI 1.00, driver 10 Dec 2004 usb usb1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found hub 1-0:1.0: 8 ports detected USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v3.0 PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.0 to 64 uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: UHCI Host Controller uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2 uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: irq 16, io base 0x0000cc00 usb usb2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.1 to 64 uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: UHCI Host Controller uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3 uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: irq 19, io base 0x0000c000 usb usb3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found hub 3-0:1.0: 2 ports detected PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.2 to 64 uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: UHCI Host Controller uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 4 uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: irq 18, io base 0x0000c400 usb usb4: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice hub 4-0:1.0: USB hub found hub 4-0:1.0: 2 ports detected PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.3 to 64 uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.3: UHCI Host Controller uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.3: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 5 uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.3: irq 16, io base 0x0000c800 usb usb5: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice hub 5-0:1.0: USB hub found hub 5-0:1.0: 2 ports detected usb 2-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2 ieee1394: Host added: ID:BUS[0-00:1023] GUID[000d6100001749f3] usb 2-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice usb 2-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 3 usb 2-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice usb 3-1: new low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2 usb 3-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice usb 3-2: new low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 3 usb 3-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice usbcore: registered new interface driver cdc_acm drivers/usb/class/cdc-acm.c: v0.25:USB Abstract Control Model driver for USB modems and ISDN adapters usblp0: USB Bidirectional printer dev 2 if 0 alt 1 proto 2 vid 0x03F0 pid 0x3C02 usbcore: registered new interface driver usblp Initializing USB Mass Storage driver... usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage USB Mass Storage support registered. usbcore: registered new interface driver usbserial drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c: USB Serial Driver core serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1 serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12 mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice i2c /dev entries driver it87: Found IT8712F chip at 0x290, revision 5 EDAC MC: Ver: 2.1.0 Jan 4 2008 EDAC i82875p: i82875p init one PCI: Unable to reserve mem region #1:1000@fecf0000 for device 0000:00:06.0 EDAC MC0: Giving out device to 'i82875p_edac' 'i82875p': DEV 0000:00:00.0 EDAC PCI0: Giving out device to module 'i82875p_edac' controller 'EDAC PCI controller': DEV '0000:00:00.0' (POLLED) input: Logitech Trackball as /class/input/input0 input: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [Logitech Trackball] on usb-0000:00:1d.1-1 input: Logitech Logitech USB Keyboard as /class/input/input1 input: USB HID v1.10 Keyboard [Logitech Logitech USB Keyboard] on usb-0000:00:1d.1-2 input: Logitech Logitech USB Keyboard as /class/input/input2 input: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [Logitech Logitech USB Keyboard] on usb-0000:00:1d.1-2 usbcore: registered new interface driver usbhid drivers/hid/usbhid/hid-core.c: v2.6:USB HID core driver Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.14 (Fri Jul 20 09:12:58 2007 UTC). PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.5 to 64 intel8x0_measure_ac97_clock: measured 53811 usecs intel8x0: clocking to 48000 ALSA device list: #0: Intel ICH5 with ALC658D at irq 17 #1: Brooktree Bt878 at 0xf4101000, irq 18 oprofile: using NMI interrupt. nf_conntrack version 0.5.0 (16384 buckets, 65536 max) ip_tables: (C) 2000-2006 Netfilter Core Team TCP cubic registered NET: Registered protocol family 1 NET: Registered protocol family 17 Using IPI Shortcut mode kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. VFS: Mounted root (ext3 filesystem) readonly. Freeing unused kernel memory: 256k freed EXT3 FS on hda7, internal journal kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3 FS on hda1, internal journal EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Adding 1177468k swap on /dev/hdb2. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:1177468k hda: selected mode 0x45 hdb: selected mode 0x42 hdparm /dev/sdb /dev/sdb: IO_support = 0 (default 16-bit) readonly = 0 (off) readahead = 256 (on) geometry = 0/255/63, sectors = 0, start = 0 hdparm --Istdout /dev/sdb: /dev/sdb: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 2008 1301 0601 4215 0101 0005 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 496e 7465 6772 6174 6564 2054 6563 686e 6f6c 6f67 7920 4578 7072 6573 7320 496e 6320 2020 2020 2020 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 ffff 0fff 0000 0007 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 003f 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 9eae 12a1 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0001 0003 3133 2121 9111 0091 3266 0021 0021 0001 0505 0005 0500 0000 0005 0005 0005 0040 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0001 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 Marc H. 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