Querying bios settings from Linux

[Paul Lussier]

Hi all,

Does anyone know a way to query BIOS settings from the command line in
Linux?  I need to find out if the SATA settings are set to IDE or AHCI
on 100+ systems.  It will really suck if I have to connect a console
to each one and reboot into the BIOS...

I don't care if I can't change it, actually, that might be scary :)

dmidecode doesn't seem to give me this depth of information either
(though it does tell me an awful lot of useful information).

And, sadly, I don't have IPMI cards in the machines...

Thanks.
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Seeya,
Paul