I'm looking for a way to gather specific HDD info such as what shows up in dmesg: IDE: hda: WDC WD800JB-00CRA1, ATA DISK drive hdb: CD-ROM CMD5X11, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive blk: queue c040c460, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff) ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 hda: attached ide-disk driver. hda: host protected area => 1 hda: 156301488 sectors (80026 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=9729/255/63, UDMA(100) hdb: attached ide-cdrom driver. hdb: ATAPI 52X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache, UDMA(33) Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12 Or SCSI: scsi0 : ioc0: LSISAS1064, FwRev=01040000h, Ports=1, MaxQ=203, IRQ=209 Vendor: FUJITSU Model: MAV2073RCSUN72G Rev: 0301 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 04 SCSI device sda: 143374738 512-byte hdwr sectors (73408 MB) SCSI device sda: drive cache: write through sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4 < sda5 sda6 sda7 sda8 > Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 2, lun 0 Vendor: FUJITSU Model: MAV2073RCSUN72G Rev: 0301 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 04 SCSI device sdb: 143374738 512-byte hdwr sectors (73408 MB) SCSI device sdb: drive cache: write through sdb: sdb1 sdb2 sdb3 sdb4 < sdb5 sdb6 sdb7 sdb8 > Attached scsi disk sdb at scsi0, channel 0, id 3, lun 0 What I'm mainly after is where the make/model information comes from. I dug around in the /proc filesystem but didn't see much. Googling turned up a lot of information, but not what I'm looking for specifically. fdisk -l only provides the geometry and layout of the disk. I had thought of writing a script to gather the information on system bootup, or to grep it out of /var/log/dmesg. But, I was looking for commands to issue to gather it in case someone had installed a hot-plug disk without rebooting. Any insight to this? Thanks! -- -Shawn -Nemo me impune lacessit. Ne Obliviscaris.. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20060323/d55d0e82/attachment.htm