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?
Thanks.
Scott
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.
Regards, Tim
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,
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 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.
Actually, with 3ware, smartctl *can* see through the adapter to the disks behind it. E.g. (on a 9650):
[jlb@$HOST jlb]$ sudo smartctl -i -d 3ware,0 /dev/twa0 smartctl version 5.36 [x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-6 Bruce Allen Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/
=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Device Model: WDC WD740ADFD-00NLR1 Serial Number: WD-WMANS1403676 Firmware Version: 20.07P20 User Capacity: 74,355,769,344 bytes Device is: Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall] ATA Version is: 7 ATA Standard is: Not recognized. Minor revision code: 0x1d Local Time is: Tue Jul 17 09:00:13 2007 EDT SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability. SMART support is: Enabled
'man smartctl' has all the details.
Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
Actually, with 3ware, smartctl *can* see through the adapter to the disks behind it. E.g. (on a 9650):
[jlb@$HOST jlb]$ sudo smartctl -i -d 3ware,0 /dev/twa0
[snip]
'man smartctl' has all the details.
Outstanding! I wasn't aware of that. Thanks!
Best,
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 tool to let me get the hard drive make/model/serial numbers from a hardware RAID setup?
YOu have not told us, what server and what OS you're running. If it's a Dell Server (you have a Dell raid card) you can do it with Dell's OMSA: http://linux.dell.com/wiki/index.php/Repository/hardware
The webinterface lets you configure and view all Raid parts, all drive infos are there, too.
Note this does only work on PE* servers, not SC*.
Rainer
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 drive info.
Is there a tool to let me get the hard drive make/model/serial numbers from a hardware RAID setup?
You might want to check : http://linux.dell.com/repo/software/
I don't have any Dell server near here to test, but I'm almost sure that Dell management tools were able to retrieve that info.
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