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 Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University