Jose Alberto Reguero wrote: > [root@jar Pls]# hdparm -I /dev/sdd > > /dev/sdd: > > ATA device, with non-removable media > Model Number: ST3750640AS > Serial Number: 5QD3Q2AZ > Firmware Revision: 3.AFM > > How can be so diferent that the one make with esata? That's because your enclosure is emulating IDENTIFY command when attached via SATA. It's emulating USB mass storage device when connected via USB but your enclosure is good enough to implement ATA command passthrough and as hdparm issues IDENTIFY using command passthrough, it gets to the actual drive and returns the result directly. -- tejun -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html