Tim Verhoeven wrote:
On 7/17/07, Scott Ehrlich scott@mit.edu 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 info.
Is there a tool to let me get the hard drive make/model/serial numbers from a hardware RAID setup?
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 controller itself, those should be able to get the info you need.
That is my understanding as well. I just scoured a system with a 3Ware 9550 and tried to get physical device information without using any of the 3ware tools. I was unable to get ANY information about the actual disks other than the size of the array/device being reported by the RAID card.
Best,