Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2008 16:19:47 -0400 From: Jason Morgan <jwm-freebsd-questions@sentinelchicken.net> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Capturing ATA devices serial numbers Message-ID: <20080707201947.GA97973@sentinelchicken.net> In-Reply-To: <006401c8e06b$369de8a0$3ef8a580@lanl.gov> References: <006401c8e06b$369de8a0$3ef8a580@lanl.gov>
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On 2008.07.07 13:54:06, Vaughn Clinton wrote:
> All,
>
> I'm looking for a FreeBSD utility that will allow me to query a disk for its
> serial number. Can you point me to such a tool that'll allow me to do so?
Assuming you mean a hard disk, if you can run smartmontools, this is
from smartctl(8):
-i, --info
Prints the device model number, serial number, firmware version,
and ATA Standard version/revision information. Says if the
device supports SMART, and if so, whether SMART support is cur-
rently enabled or disabled. If the device supports Logical
Block Address mode (LBA mode) print current user drive capacity
in bytes. (If drive is has a user protected area reserved, or is
"clipped", this may be smaller than the potential maximum drive
capacity.) Indicates if the drive is in the smartmontools data-
base (see '-v' options below). If so, the drive model family
may also be printed. If '-n' (see below) is specified, the power
mode of the drive is printed.
Full man page is here:
http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/man/smartctl.8.html
Port is here:
/usr/ports/sysutils/smartmontools
HTH,
~Jason Morgan
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