hdparm command

Gnome Find Drive Serial Number

by Vivek Gite on October 3, 2009 · 4 comments

How do I find out serial number information for my hard disk under Ubuntu Linux Gnome desktop environment?

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When I run hdparm -tT /dev/sda command under CentOS / RHEL I get the following error on screen:

/dev/sda:
Timing buffered disk reads: 908 MB in 3.00 seconds = 302.39 MB/sec
HDIO_DRIVE_CMD(null) (wait for flush complete) failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device


How do I fix this problem?

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Q. Can you tell me Linux command to find out information about my hard disk such as description, product name, bus type, size, cache memory size etc under Linux? A. There are many tools to get this information. I recommend hdparm command which provides a command line interface to various hard disk ioctls supported by [...]

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How do I find out the make, model and serial number for my SCSI or IDE hard disks under CentOS Linux server? How do I get vendor information about my disk storage w/o opening my Intel / AMD server chassis?

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