On 12/11/2007, Jonathan Horne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > is there a way to get the serial number from a drive from within the OS? im > trying to audit the drives in my file server, but without pulling the thing > from the rack and cracking it open. they are just standard sata drives, not > on any sort of raid controller (ie, i know 3ware cards are capable of pulling > the drive info). > > thanks, > -- > Jonathan Horne > http://dfwlpiki.dfwlp.org > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" >
Check out smartmonstools in /usr/ports/sysutils/smartmontools then smartctl -a /dev/ads4 (or what ever your drive is) === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Model Family: Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 and 7200.7 Plus family Device Model: ST3160827AS Serial Number: <XXXXXXXX> Firmware Version: 3.42 User Capacity: 160,041,885,696 bytes Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show] ATA Version is: 6 ATA Standard is: ATA/ATAPI-6 T13 1410D revision 2 Local Time is: Mon Nov 12 10:48:30 2007 EST SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability. SMART support is: Enabled === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === David N _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
