disk drive serial number

[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 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).
> > 
> > Check dmesg (or /var/run/dmesg.boot). The serial number should show, e.g.:
> > 
> > ad8: 381553MB <Seagate ST3400633AS 3.AAH> at ata4-master SATA150
> 
> Which is the serial?
> I see the extended model id.
> 
> ////jerry
> 
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Josh
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