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,