[CentOS] RAID hard drive serial numbers?

2007-07-17 Thread Scott Ehrlich
smartctl, hdparm, and sdparm all are valuable tools to obtain hard drive info. But, they don't seem to work, at least, on obtaining hard drive info from drives on a Dell PERC controller. Instead, I'm given basic PERC controller info, not drive info. Is there a tool to let me get the hard

Re: [CentOS] RAID hard drive serial numbers?

2007-07-17 Thread Tim Verhoeven
On 7/17/07, Scott Ehrlich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: smartctl, hdparm, and sdparm all are valuable tools to obtain hard drive info. But, they don't seem to work, at least, on obtaining hard drive info from drives on a Dell PERC controller. Instead, I'm given basic PERC controller info, not drive

Re: [CentOS] RAID hard drive serial numbers?

2007-07-17 Thread Rainer Traut
Hi, Scott Ehrlich schrieb: smartctl, hdparm, and sdparm all are valuable tools to obtain hard drive info. But, they don't seem to work, at least, on obtaining hard drive info from drives on a Dell PERC controller. Instead, I'm given basic PERC controller info, not drive info. Is there a

Re: [CentOS] RAID hard drive serial numbers?

2007-07-17 Thread Tomasz NapieraƂa
On Tuesday 17 July 2007 13:20:28 Scott Ehrlich wrote: smartctl, hdparm, and sdparm all are valuable tools to obtain hard drive info. But, they don't seem to work, at least, on obtaining hard drive info from drives on a Dell PERC controller. Instead, I'm given basic PERC controller info, not

Re: [CentOS] RAID hard drive serial numbers?

2007-07-17 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Tue, 17 Jul 2007 at 7:41am, Chris Mauritz wrote Tim Verhoeven wrote: Since you are using HW RAID the tools you mentioned cannot be used to get the HD serial numbers. This is because the RAID controllers completely hides the physical disks from the OS. You would need tools for the RAID

Re: [CentOS] RAID hard drive serial numbers?

2007-07-17 Thread Chris Mauritz
Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: Actually, with 3ware, smartctl *can* see through the adapter to the disks behind it. E.g. (on a 9650): [EMAIL PROTECTED] jlb]$ sudo smartctl -i -d 3ware,0 /dev/twa0 [snip] 'man smartctl' has all the details. Outstanding! I wasn't aware of that. Thanks! Best,