[CentOS] RAID hard drive serial numbers?
Chris Mauritz
chrism at imntv.com
Tue Jul 17 11:41:36 UTC 2007
Tim Verhoeven wrote:
> On 7/17/07, Scott Ehrlich <scott at 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,
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