Re: disk drive serial number

2007-11-13 Thread Marcelo Celleri
Install dmidecode from ports, its a great tool to audit your hardware and is also available for Linux. El lun, 12-11-2007 a las 11:54 -0500, Jerry McAllister escribió: > On Sun, Nov 11, 2007 at 06:38:08PM -0500, Josh Carroll wrote: > > > > is there a way to get the serial number from a drive fr

Re: disk drive serial number

2007-11-12 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sun, Nov 11, 2007 at 06:38:08PM -0500, Josh Carroll 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

Re: disk drive serial number

2007-11-12 Thread Harald Schmalzbauer
Am Montag, 12. November 2007 01:54:33 schrieb Josh Carroll: > > That's the _model_ number, not the _serial_ number, yes? > > Oops. Indeed. I misread the question. :/ I'm still missing the hint for 'diskinfo -v ad0' ! Isn't it well known? Best regards, -Harry signature.asc Description:

Re: disk drive serial number

2007-11-12 Thread Wojciech Puchar
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# atacontrol cap ad0 Protocol ATA/ATAPI revision 6 device model ST9120822A serial number 5LZ2F879 firmware revision 3.ALD cylinders 16383 heads 16 sectors/track 63 lba supported 234441648 sectors lba

Re: disk drive serial number

2007-11-11 Thread Josh Carroll
> That's the _model_ number, not the _serial_ number, yes? Oops. Indeed. I misread the question. :/ Josh ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: disk drive serial number

2007-11-11 Thread David N
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 a

Re: disk drive serial number

2007-11-11 Thread Jon Hamilton
Josh Carroll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, said on Sun Nov 11, 2007 [06:38:08 PM]: } > 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

Re: disk drive serial number

2007-11-11 Thread Jonathan Horne
On Sunday 11 November 2007 05:52:54 pm Erik Trulsson wrote: > The serial number can (for ATA/SATA) disks be shown with atacontrol(8) > (e.g. "atacontrol cap ad4") or with smartctl(8) from the > sysutils/smartmontools port (supports both ATA/SATA and SCSI disks) > (e.g. smartctl -a /dev/ad4) thank

Re: disk drive serial number

2007-11-11 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Sun, Nov 11, 2007 at 06:38:08PM -0500, Josh Carroll 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,

Re: disk drive serial number

2007-11-11 Thread Robert Huff
Josh Carroll writes: > > is there a way to get the serial number from a drive from > > within the OS? > > Check dmesg (or /var/run/dmesg.boot). The serial number should > show, e.g.: > > ad8: 381553MB at ata4-master SATA150 That's the _model_ number, not the _serial_ number, yes

Re: disk drive serial number

2007-11-11 Thread Josh Carroll
> 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 ca

disk drive serial number

2007-11-11 Thread Jonathan Horne
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