On Sun 20 December 2009 06:39:30 am James Brown wrote: > I had upgraded the HDD of my laptop "Acer TravelMate3040 (working under > Debian AMD64) to the Seagate ST9500420AS 500 GB. > It seems that it works fine but I have the next result of the smartctl > now: http://paste.org.ru/?hb4nsx > In the beginning of using it I had the next result: > http://paste.org.ru/?ouzru9 > I have read that the smartctl can get very strandge results for Seagate > HDDs and it may be not so terrible as it seems. > Have anyone an opinion concirning this matter? > And the next question, how can I get the serial number of my Seagate HDD > without drawning it out from my notebook? > I want to send request to the Seagate technical support but tor it I > must register on their site with that number and their site don't want > it the serial number that I can get with exicuting commands "smartctl" > or "hdparm".
James, One program that will do this is sginfo, found in the sg3-utils package (at least, on a Debian system). cmr -- Debian 'Etch' - Registered Linux User #241964 -------- "More laws, less justice." -- Marcus Tullius Ciceroca, 42 BC -- Debian 'Etch' - Registered Linux User #241964 -------- "More laws, less justice." -- Marcus Tullius Ciceroca, 42 BC -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
