The current hdparm release does "-i" and "-I" out of the box, along with many other "-[A-Z]" options, assuming your kernel has the widely used libata "passthru" patch applied. Since libata is in-theory to be decoupled from the SCSI layer at some point, it might be unwise to rely on emulated SCSI commands for detailed SATA info. Cheers - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html