Recently I'v been looking into using hdparm to improve system proformance, as of now i haven't used it for anything but when attempting to get information on my drive i get the error "HDIO_GET_IDENTITY failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device". This happens on a Seagate Barracuda 120GB SATA hard disk controlled by a Promise FastTrack 368 RAID Controller integrated to my ASUS K8V Deluxe. My prevoius linux system was slackware 10.0 and hdparm works fine there. Other Details: Kernel Version: 2.6.10-gentoo-r4 Detailed output from my box: root@predatorbox# uname -a Linux predatorbox 2.6.10-gentoo-r4 #1 Wed Jan 12 13:06:03 EST 2005 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3400+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux root@predatorbox# hdparm -i /dev/sda /dev/sda: HDIO_GET_IDENTITY failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 78041 ***
Sorry for the duplicate report prob. Bug still exists in hdparm though.
why did you re-open this? please follow the other item this is a duplicate of instead. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 78041 ***