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 at 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. > > -- > Joshua Baker-LePain > Department of Biomedical Engineering > Duke University > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20050913/9ed44a78/attachment-0005.html>