How to get the Controller information from an SSD in linux?

[edgardoos33]

Hello all,

I'm new to the forum, I may not be asking the question properly as it may look to broad, but the thing is that I've been searching with no luck about how to read the information that is inside the controller of an SSD.

I know there are various types of controllers like SandForce, Marvell or SMI. But I would like to know if it's there a tool on linux (Ubuntu) that I can use to check the information inside the controller. This only for educational purposes and to know if I would decide to get myself more into C programming, assuming that to read the information I would need to address commands with it to get that info.

Thanks everyone in advance!

 

[kanewolf]

The command "hdparm" in linux can get you a lot of info -- hdparm -I /dev/sda

 

[edgardoos33]

The command "hdparm" in linux can get you a lot of info -- hdparm -I /dev/sda

I have already tried this command, it's very useful, but I wanted something like SMI MPTool, after the ssd has been programmed, it shows something like a green circle when you can access to the CID Settings, and there's information like the DRAM Vendor and etc, as that tool is only available for windows, I would like to know if there's some lookalike tool on linux that is usable so I can read the controller id and settings.