On 3/23/06, Shawn Fertch <sfertch at gmail.com> wrote: > > 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. > I found the answer: It is in fact in the /proc information. For ide systems it's similar to: cat /proc/ide/ide0/hda/model For scsi it's similar to it. I had discounted these files because they are 0 sized. cat /proc/scsi/scsi Attached devices: Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 02 Lun: 00 Vendor: FUJITSU Model: MAV2073RCSUN72G Rev: 0301 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 04 Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 03 Lun: 00 Vendor: FUJITSU Model: MAV2073RCSUN72G Rev: 0301 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 04 Host: scsi1 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00 Vendor: AMI Model: Virtual CDROM Rev: 1.00 Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Host: scsi2 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00 Vendor: AMI Model: Virtual Floppy Rev: 1.00 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 cat /proc/ide/ide0/model WDC WD800JB-00CRA1 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20060323/dac638c5/attachment.htm