On Sunday 16 November 2003 4:15 pm, Eric Huff wrote: > Is there a way to check the firmware revison of ide cdroms? > > On scsi emulated ones, cdrecord --checkdrive dev=0,0,0 tells all. > > Is there a way to do this for ide drives? I have a utility in > windows that does it, but it's not as complete, and i'd rather be > able to do it in linux. I believe that /sbin/hdparm -I will dump a ton of information at least for ide hard drives, and it is said to work for CDROMs too.
> Is there any harm in setting the ide cdrom to scsi emulation? (i > can't see why their would be). Not any that I have ever run across. Rob -- Mountlake Terrace, Washington
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