[geeks] Seagate vendor-unique data?

[Patrick Giagnocavo]

On 2/1/2012 7:22 PM, Lex Landa wrote:
> 
> I found out something useful while I was searching, and that was that
> you can 'talk' to such drives (all ATA, or maybe SATA or SCSI?) with a
> simple serial link.  I had no idea that the drives had enough
> intelligence for a command line interface.  I don't think that they're
> quite at the level of running a bash shell, though.
> 
> Lex

Actually some of the embedded chips can have up to 500 MIPS of power -
needed to run the decoding and read channel pieces.  So theoretically,
in between drive operations, it probably could run bash...

e.g. the ARM Cortex R4 ...
http://www.arm.com/products/processors/cortex-r/cortex-r4.php

--Patrick