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On Tue, 1 Dec 1998, Alfred Perlstein wrote:

> If you are using 3.0 take a look at the manpage for devstat.

dmesg is also good, and is supported on all versions of FreeBSD, and
many other unixes too.

It only gives you boot-time information, but on most systems your
hardware shouldn't change much between boots.

 Ben

"You have your mind on computers, it seems." 


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