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Carlwill

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From: Orlando, FL

Registered: 2008-10-06

Posts: 560

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How Can I ID Harddrive Vendor / Model

I have a machine with 4 identical drives and the machine is running Arch x64. The problem is I need to replace one drive on this machine and don't remember what the make and model of the hard drives are on the machine. The machine is really a pain to access and even harder to open up and verify the drives not to mention the downtime for that process would be near impossible because the machine is so heavily utilized by my company.

How can I find out via the OS (Arch) the make and model of drives it is using? Is there some utility (non graphical) that will show me the drives?

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tomk

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From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

Posts: 9,839

Re: How Can I ID Harddrive Vendor / Model

dmesg | grep scsi

will give you something like this:

scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access     ATA      Maxtor 91360D8   PAS2 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
scsi 0:0:1:0: Direct-Access     ATA      WDC WD136AA      29.0 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
scsi 1:0:0:0: Direct-Access     ATA      IC35L180AVV207-1 V26O PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
scsi 1:0:1:0: Direct-Access     ATA      Maxtor 6L160P0   BAH4 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5

if that helps at all.

Carlwill

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From: Orlando, FL

Registered: 2008-10-06

Posts: 560

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Re: How Can I ID Harddrive Vendor / Model

Yup - that seems to work.

scsi 0:0:0:0: CD-ROM            TSSTcorp CDDVDW TS-H653F  SI00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
scsi 1:0:0:0: Direct-Access     ATA      ST3250410AS      4.AA PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
scsi 2:0:0:0: Direct-Access     ATA      ST3250410AS      4.AA PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
scsi 3:0:0:0: Direct-Access     ATA      ST3250410AS      4.AA PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
scsi 4:0:0:0: Direct-Access     ATA      ST3250410AS      4.AA PQ: 0 ANSI: 5

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chpln

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From: Australia

Registered: 2009-09-17

Posts: 361

Re: How Can I ID Harddrive Vendor / Model

An alternative is to use hdparm.

hdparm -i <device>