On Mon, 28 Jul 2008 11:26:30 -0700 MHR mhullrich@gmail.com took out a #2 pencil and scribbled:
Over the weekend, I had to make a technical support call on one of my DVD burners, and at one point the recorded message mentioned I should have my serial number handy. I thought there was a way to read that from at least one piece of software on the system, but I couldn't remember one and man -k on a number of subjects was unrevealing.
Can someone enlighten me (us)?
Thanks.
mhr
You can try hdparm -i /dev/yourdevice
You may need to run this as root. There is a field for Serial Number, but for my devices no serial number is provided. This may not help you, but it could work.
Output from my system:
[prata@crane ~]$ sudo hdparm -i /dev/hdc
/dev/hdc:
Model=Pioneer DVD-ROM ATAPIModel DVD-106S 011, FwRev=E1.14, SerialNo= Config={ Fixed Removeable DTR<=5Mbs DTR>10Mbs nonMagnetic }.....other info is there but is not relevant.
HTH
Alex White