For IDE disks you can also use:
  hdparm -i $DEVICE

The output from smartclt is way better looking.

On 9/13/05, Joshua Baker-LePain <jlb17@duke.edu> wrote:
On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 at 5:57pm, Truejack wrote


> How can I get the hard disk information like, its serial number, description
>
> ...through a command that like the kind of information we get on Solaris
> thro' 'iostat -En'.

smartctl -i $DEVICE

where $DEVICE is the disk drive.

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Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University
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