Re: how to find out hard disk info

From: Peer Hebing (hebing_at_uni-duesseldorf.de)
Date: 10/27/03

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    Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 23:09:38 +0100

    Hi

    Tony wrote:
    > How do I find out or what command do I use to find out what kind of hard
    > drive and what size hard drives I have installed?

    Try
    dmesg | grep hdX
    where X is a for the primary master, b for primary slave and so on, if
    you use ide. For scsi it is sd .
    There are other tools to examine your harddrive like hdparm and smartctl.
    hth
    Peer Hebing

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