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How can I have FreeBSD tell me what kind of hard drive I have (serial number, manufacturer, etc)?
 
How can I have FreeBSD tell me what kind of hard drive I have (serial number, manufacturer, etc)?
 
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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.
 
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.
  
 
--[[User:Dave|Dave]] 11:20, 25 Jul 2005 (EDT)
 
--[[User:Dave|Dave]] 11:20, 25 Jul 2005 (EDT)

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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)

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