<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//DE"><HTML><HEAD><META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=us-ascii"><TITLE>Message</TITLE></HEAD><BODY> Hallo, i'm trying to read the serial mumber of an SATA Disk. "hdparm -i /dev/sda" says: /dev/sda: HDIO_GET_IDENTITY failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device Is there another way to get the serial number? Thanks in advance, Harald P.S. I am using Fedora Core 3, kernel 2.6.12-1.1372_FC3 --  <a href="http://adserver.freenet.de/click.ng/site=fn&prod=chetools&kat=rub&tbl=webmail&ppos=1&TransactionID=1122393683108443&rgtg=256" target="_blank"><img src="http://adserver.freenet.de/image.ng/site=fn&prod=chetools&kat=rub&tbl=webmail&ppos=1&TransactionID=1122393683108443&rgtg=256" border="0"></a> </BODY></HTML>