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Subject: Re: disk drive serial number
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On Sunday 11 November 2007 05:52:54 pm Erik Trulsson wrote:
> The serial number can (for ATA/SATA) disks be shown with atacontrol(8)
> (e.g. "atacontrol cap ad4") or with smartctl(8) from the
> sysutils/smartmontools port (supports both ATA/SATA and SCSI disks)
> (e.g. smartctl -a /dev/ad4)

thank you sir, that was exactly what i needed.

cheers,
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Jonathan Horne
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