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I have SATA device connected to the system , in that i have installed Red Linux and i want to get the serial number of the hard disk. Usually in PATA we issue identify drive command to get the device details to the port address where it is connected. But incase of SATA how can we issue the commands. what is the structure for sending the commands. Because all the SATA devices detected as SCSI. i dont know how to issue commands to the SATA.
Can anyone help me?

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I have found site that tells about sending ATA commands to SATA device using sg ioctl. I have filled the sg structure with the below value. I am running this program in Fedora4

sg_io.interface_id = 'S';
sg_io.cmdp = cdb;
sg_io.cmd_len = sizeof(cdb);
sg_io.dxferp = data_in_buffer;
sg_io.dxfer_len = 512;//data_in_length; //
sg_io.dxfer_direction = SG_DXFER_FROM_DEV;
sg_io.sbp = sense;
sg_io.mx_sb_len = sizeof(sense);
sg_io.timeout = 15000;
and CDB structure is,
cdb[0] = 0x85; // ATA pass-through 12
cdb[1] = (4 << 1); // data-in
cdb[2] = 0x2e; // data-in
cdb[4] = 0x00; // ATA feature ID
cdb[6] = 1; // number of sector
cdb[7] = 0x00; //lba_low >> 8;
cdb[8] = 0x00; //lba_low;
cdb[9] = 0x00; //lba_mid >> 8;
cdb[10] = 0x00; //lba_mid;
cdb[11] = 0x00; //lba_high >> 8;
cdb[12] = 0x00; //lba_high;
cdb[14] = 0xEC; // ATA command ID
I have checked CDB values which i am passing with the document "ATA over scsi standard passthru implementation." I am creating the handle for /dev/sda. After passing the ioctl i am getting wrong values in sense buffer.
sense buffer[0]:0x70
sense buffer[1]:0x00
sense buffer[2]:0x05
sense buffer[3]:0x00
sense buffer[4]:0x00
sense buffer[5]:0x00
sense buffer[6]:0x00
sense buffer[7]:0x06
sense buffer[8]:0x00
sense buffer[9]:0x00
sense buffer[10]:0x00. As per program, these values are not valid. I dont know how they have defined like this. Can anyone help me regarding the sense buffer values.