Talk:Partitioning Tips and Tricks
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+ | There is the sysutils/smartmontools port for SMART enabled drives. Running "smartctl -i /dev/ad4" on my system gives output like: | ||
+ | <blockquote style="background: white; border: 1px solid black; padding: 1em;"><pre><nowiki> | ||
+ | === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === | ||
+ | Device Model: WDC WD2500JB-00EVA0 | ||
+ | Serial Number: WD-WCAEH1028140 | ||
+ | Firmware Version: 15.05R15 | ||
+ | Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show] | ||
+ | ATA Version is: 6 | ||
+ | ATA Standard is: Exact ATA specification draft version not indicated | ||
+ | Local Time is: Thu Dec 22 10:48:33 2005 CST | ||
+ | SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability. | ||
+ | SMART support is: Enabled | ||
+ | </nowiki></pre></blockquote> | ||
+ | -- Joe |
Revision as of 12:11, 22 December 2005
How can I have FreeBSD tell me what kind of hard drive I have (serial number, manufacturer, etc)?
to the best of my knowlege, you can't. That info is printed on the hard drive itself. So you'd have to look at it -- open the case and take the disk out and write down all that info. You can get the system to tell you what kind of disk you have (ATA/SCSI, etc) and how it's been configured, but that's as far as that goes.
--Dave 11:20, 25 Jul 2005 (EDT)
There is the sysutils/smartmontools port for SMART enabled drives. Running "smartctl -i /dev/ad4" on my system gives output like:
=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Device Model: WDC WD2500JB-00EVA0 Serial Number: WD-WCAEH1028140 Firmware Version: 15.05R15 Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show] ATA Version is: 6 ATA Standard is: Exact ATA specification draft version not indicated Local Time is: Thu Dec 22 10:48:33 2005 CST SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability. SMART support is: Enabled
-- Joe