Re: What's the Drive Model

ChrisS wrote:
I did find one way to do it.

cat /proc/ide/hda/model
WDC WD2500YD-01NVB1

Is there another way? There's always two ways to skin a unix cat.

smartctl -i /dev/hda
hdparm -I /dev/hda

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