diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 81549fcf..0605dad1 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ AC_INIT([testdisk],[7.2-WIP],[grenier@cgsecurity.org])
 AC_LANG(C)
 sinclude(acx_pthread.m4)
 sinclude(mkdir.m4)
-TESTDISKDATE="February 2023"
+TESTDISKDATE="August 2023"
 AC_SUBST(TESTDISKDATE)
 AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED([TESTDISKDATE],"$TESTDISKDATE",[Date of release])
 AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR(config)
@@ -330,7 +330,7 @@ AC_SYS_LARGEFILE
 AC_HEADER_STDC
 #AC_CHECK_HEADERS([sys/types.h sys/stat.h stdlib.h stdint.h unistd.h])
 AC_HEADER_SYS_WAIT
-AC_CHECK_HEADERS([byteswap.h curses.h cygwin/fs.h cygwin/version.h dal/file_dal.h dal/file.h ddk/ntddstor.h dirent.h endian.h errno.h fcntl.h features.h giconv.h glob.h iconv.h io.h libgen.h limits.h linux/fs.h linux/hdreg.h linux/types.h locale.h machine/endian.h malloc.h ncurses.h ncurses/curses.h ncurses/ncurses.h ncursesw/curses.h ncursesw/ncurses.h ntfs/version.h pwd.h scsi/scsi.h scsi/scsi_ioctl.h scsi/sg.h setjmp.h signal.h stdarg.h sys/cygwin.h sys/disk.h sys/disklabel.h sys/dkio.h sys/endian.h sys/ioctl.h sys/param.h sys/select.h sys/time.h sys/utsname.h sys/vtoc.h time.h utime.h w32api/ddk/ntdddisk.h windef.h windows.h zlib.h])
+AC_CHECK_HEADERS([byteswap.h curses.h cygwin/fs.h cygwin/version.h dal/file_dal.h dal/file.h ddk/ntddstor.h dirent.h endian.h errno.h fcntl.h features.h giconv.h glob.h iconv.h io.h libgen.h limits.h linux/fs.h linux/hdreg.h linux/types.h locale.h machine/endian.h malloc.h ncurses.h ncurses/curses.h ncurses/ncurses.h ncursesw/curses.h ncursesw/ncurses.h ntfs/version.h pwd.h scsi/scsi.h scsi/scsi_ioctl.h scsi/sg.h setjmp.h signal.h stdarg.h sys/cygwin.h sys/disk.h sys/disklabel.h sys/dkio.h sys/endian.h sys/ioctl.h sys/sysmacros.h sys/param.h sys/select.h sys/time.h sys/utsname.h sys/vtoc.h time.h utime.h w32api/ddk/ntdddisk.h windef.h windows.h zlib.h])
 
 #--------------------------------------------------------------------
 # Check for iconv support (for Unicode conversion).
diff --git a/src/hdaccess.c b/src/hdaccess.c
index 02fb922b..e82aead1 100644
--- a/src/hdaccess.c
+++ b/src/hdaccess.c
@@ -81,6 +81,9 @@
 #ifdef HAVE_SYS_DKIO_H
 #include <sys/dkio.h>
 #endif
+#ifdef HAVE_SYS_SYSMACROS_H
+#include <sys/sysmacros.h>
+#endif
 /* linux/fs.h may not be needed because sys/mount.h is present */
 /* #ifdef HAVE_LINUX_FS_H */
 /* #include <linux/fs.h> */
@@ -1117,6 +1120,53 @@ static int scsi_query_product_info (const int sg_fd, char **vendor, char **produ
   @*/
 static void disk_get_model(const int hd_h, disk_t *dev, const unsigned int verbose)
 {
+#if defined(TARGET_LINUX) && defined(HAVE_SYS_SYSMACROS_H)
+  struct stat stat_rec;
+  if(fstat(hd_h,&stat_rec)>=0 && S_ISBLK(stat_rec.st_mode))
+  {
+    FILE *f;
+    char name_buf[4096];
+    if(dev->model==NULL)
+    {
+      snprintf(name_buf, sizeof(name_buf), "/sys/dev/block/%u:%u/device/model", major(stat_rec.st_rdev), minor(stat_rec.st_rdev));
+      if((f = fopen(name_buf, "r")) != NULL)
+      {
+	char tmp[41];
+	if (fgets(tmp, 40, f) != NULL)
+	{
+	  dev->model=strip_dup(tmp);
+	}
+	fclose(f);
+      }
+    }
+    if(dev->serial_no == NULL)
+    {
+      snprintf(name_buf, sizeof(name_buf), "/sys/dev/block/%u:%u/device/serial", major(stat_rec.st_rdev), minor(stat_rec.st_rdev));
+      if((f = fopen(name_buf, "r")) != NULL)
+      {
+	char tmp[41];
+	if (fgets(tmp, 40, f) != NULL)
+	{
+	  dev->serial_no=strip_dup(tmp);
+	}
+	fclose(f);
+      }
+    }
+    if(dev->fw_rev== NULL)
+    {
+      snprintf(name_buf, sizeof(name_buf), "/sys/dev/block/%u:%u/device/rev", major(stat_rec.st_rdev), minor(stat_rec.st_rdev));
+      if((f = fopen(name_buf, "r")) != NULL)
+      {
+	char tmp[41];
+	if (fgets(tmp, 40, f) != NULL)
+	{
+	  dev->fw_rev=strip_dup(tmp);
+	}
+	fclose(f);
+      }
+    }
+  }
+#endif
 #ifdef HDIO_GET_IDENTITY
   if(dev->model!=NULL)
     return;