how to find the disk info like model, rpm,...

RajRed · 05-30-2006, 07:08 PM

How do I find out the disk info such as the speed of disk (rpm), model, what level of RAID was configured?

Thanks.

alunduil · 05-30-2006, 07:35 PM

Everything you should need to know about your harddrive(s):

Code:

hdparm -Ii /dev/hda[1-4]

More about hdparm:

Code:

man hdparm

Regards,

Alunduil

EDIT: Fixed tags; I think I have them down now...

RajRed · 05-31-2006, 02:36 PM

It seems like hdparm does not operate on SCSI disks?

alunduil · 05-31-2006, 03:07 PM

I believe there is a tool, sdparm, that works on scsi disks, but I'm not sure. Try googling for scsi & hdparm.

Regards,

Alunduil

osor · 05-31-2006, 03:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by RajRed

It seems like hdparm does not operate on SCSI disks?

You can always go digging around in /proc and /sys filesystems (provided you're running an up-to-date kernel). In my system (one ide harddrive hda), there's a lot of information in

Code:

/proc/ide/hda

I'm sure there's something similar for scsi disks.

intelstar83 · 04-12-2016, 04:33 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by RajRed

How do I find out the disk info such as the speed of disk (rpm), model, what level of RAID was configured?

Thanks.

hdparm doesn't work well in my case : Fedora 22 on VM

suicidaleggroll · 04-12-2016, 04:56 PM

VMs don't have access to the raw device unless you explicitly pass it in (rendering it unusable on the host). The VM only sees an emulated drive controlled by the VM software.

kilgoretrout · 04-12-2016, 05:26 PM

As noted above, this won't work from a VM. But for future reference, you can install the smartmontools package if it is not already installed and get very detailed disk info by running as root or admin:

Code:

# smartctl -i /dev/<insert device file, eg sda, hda, etc>

This will work for any smart capable hard drive which is pretty much everything manufactured in the last 10 years. For example, here's the output I get on my WD 1TB hard drive:

Code:

$ sudo smartctl -i /dev/sdd
smartctl 6.2 2013-07-26 r3841 [x86_64-linux-3.13.0-85-generic] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-13, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Family:     Western Digital Caviar Black
Device Model:     WDC WD1001FALS-00J7B0
Serial Number:    WD-WMATV7270748
LU WWN Device Id: 5 0014ee 0ace4fa7b
Firmware Version: 05.00K05
User Capacity:    1,000,204,886,016 bytes [1.00 TB]
Sector Size:      512 bytes logical/physical
Device is:        In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
ATA Version is:   ATA8-ACS (minor revision not indicated)
SATA Version is:  SATA 2.5, 3.0 Gb/s
Local Time is:    Tue Apr 12 17:22:26 2016 CDT
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled

Ztcoracat · 04-12-2016, 05:31 PM

Hi:

Code:

cat /proc/cpuinfo

Should give you all the info. you need about your cpu. Not sure if that will work in a VM-

https://linuxconfig.org/hard-drive-s...ine-and-hdparm
http://www.shellhacks.com/en/HowTo-T...-Disk-in-Linux