hdparm -I fails with HDIO_DRIVE_CMD(identify) failed: Input/output error
Issue
- Attempting to use hdparm-9.16 (stock RHEL version) to dump detailed information about a SSD and it fails.
hdparm -I /dev/sdc
/dev/sdc:
HDIO_DRIVE_CMD(identify) failed: Input/output error
- This was fixed in hdparm-9.37.
- The latest hdparm from FC18 works as expected.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- hdparm-9.16
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