June 11, 200719 yr Author Title says it all. Does it? Bill I thought so. Anyway, I'm looking for a telnet command to check the whether a drive is running in DMA or PIO mode.
June 12, 200719 yr Look on the Devices page for the linux "device identifier" corresponding to your hard drives. They will be of the form /dev/hda /dev/hdb .. and/or /dev/sda /dev/sdb .. Then type this command, giving the device identifier corresponding to drive of interest: hdparm -i /dev/hda can also try hdparm -I /dev/hda
June 12, 200719 yr Author Sorry, I guess I should've actually read the results. I knew about the hdparm command but I didn't notice the asterisk notation before. I knew it listed all the modes the drove was capable of, but didn't realize it showed which one it was running. Anyhow, I tried the command with my sda, sdb drives and it returns this error: root@Tower1:~# hdparm -i /dev/sda /dev/sda: HDIO_GET_IDENTITY failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device Do SATA drives ever run in PIO mode?
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