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From: Dave Jones <davej@suse.de>
To: Mark Atwood <mra@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: Identify IDE device?
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On 30 Oct 2001, Mark Atwood wrote:

> Is there a way, via an ioctl call, or something to identify what
> specific IDE hard disk or other IDE device is hooked up to the IDE
> controller?

HDIO_GET_IDENTITY is the ioctl you seek.

Grab the hdparm source for an example of how to use this and other
IDE related ioctls.

regards,

Dave.

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| Dave Jones.        http://www.codemonkey.org.uk
| SuSE Labs

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