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From: RayeR <glaux AT centrum DOT cz>
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Subject: Re: get drive id string for ide/sata?
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 15:57:57 -0700 (PDT)
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I don't know what ID string you exactly mean but probably the ID in
drive firmware, so you have to send proper ATA command identify drive
to get structure with various info data about the drive. You need to
access drive controller directly via inportb/outportb functions to
read/write from/to IO space...