At 15:38 11.11.2002, Marco Tabini spoke out and said: --------------------[snip]-------------------- >If you're using linux, you can try to execute this from the command >line: > >hdparm -i [device] > >to get, among other things, the serial number of a hard drive. You can >then extract it with a simple regular expression. --------------------[snip]--------------------
Seems to work only on non-SCSI disks - running RHL 7.2 I get # hdparm -i /dev/sda /dev/sda: operation not supported on SCSI disks :( -- >O Ernest E. Vogelsinger (\) ICQ #13394035 ^ http://www.vogelsinger.at/