On Monday 26 January 2009, Mark Lord wrote: >Felix Miata wrote: >.. > >> The "Drive Detect software" that >> http://seagate.custkb.com/seagate/crm/selfservice/search.jsp?DocId=207957 >> directs to use to discover the firmware revision requires windoz. Anyone >> know if it works under Wine? Instead I used a bootable Seatools CD that >> came in a retail Seagate HD package. > >.. > >Under Linux, use this: hdparm -I /dev/sd? | head -8 > Should I be worried about this one? Seagate 500GB sata /dev/sdb: ATA device, with non-removable media Model Number: ST3500320AS Serial Number: 9QM5BB7Y Firmware Revision: SD15 Transport: Serial Thank you -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) QOTD: "I used to be an idealist, but I got mugged by reality." -- 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