get hard drive type

[Trevor Marshall]

Nice one Peter. Was sure we should be able to get this... Now to get it off the rest of the servers..
thanks! -Trevor

-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Smith [mailto:peter.smith at utsouthwestern.edu]
Sent: Monday, April 19, 2004 8:38 PM
To: linux-poweredge at dell.com
Subject: Re: get hard drive type


Afacli is a cinch:

AFA0> disk list /full
Executing: disk list /full=TRUE

B:ID:L  Device Type     Removable media  Vendor-ID Product-ID        
Rev   Blocks    Bytes/Block Usage            Shared Rate
------  --------------  ---------------  --------- ----------------  
----- --------- ----------- ---------------- ------ ----
0:00:0   Disk            N                SEAGATE   ST336706LC        
8A03  71132959  512         Initialized      NO     160
0:01:0   Disk            N                SEAGATE   ST336706LC        
8A03  71132959  512         Initialized      NO     160
0:03:0   Disk            N                SEAGATE   ST336706LC        
8A03  71132959  512         Initialized      NO     160
0:04:0   Disk            N                SEAGATE   ST336706LC        
8A03  71132959  512         Initialized      NO     160

Peter


Trevor Marshall wrote:

>Yes I was hoping to glean disk model really, just for replacement parts and the like. Looks like the answer is no. Very strange I'm sure I've pulled disc info off of RH6.2 with an ICP vortex controller. I don't like the idea of bringing the machines down to the bios to get this information so I guess I'll see what I can dig up from Dell using my serial numbers.
>And at least I'm a bit handier with afacli now. thanks Jason,
>Trevor
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