Is there a command, which shows the type of IDE drives? I'd like to know the type of my CD-RW. I use FreeBSD 5.3. Thanks

i hope this doesnt sound nasty: check your owners manual
thats the best policy.

Yes there is a command to supply you with that information. From the shell...

code:


$ dmesg | less
Copyright (c) 1992-2004 The FreeBSD Project.
Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE-p5 #3: Sat Jan 22 12:39:11 PST 2005
root@.someisp.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC
Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0
CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.06GHz (3066.58-MHz 686-class CPU)
Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0xf27 Stepping = 7
Features=0xbfebfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH, DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,
SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE>
Hyperthreading: 2 logical CPUs
real memory = 1072955392 (1023 MB)
avail memory = 1044602880 (996 MB)

<Non relevent information edited>

acd0: DVDROM <JLMS XJ-HD166S/DGS3> at ata1-master UDMA33
acd1: DVDR <HP DVD Writer 420/1.33> at ata1-slave UDMA33


My drive is actually a DVD writer. You will notice it listed under device name acd1. Yours might be different. My DVDROM drive is listed under device acd0. You will also notice that it states that it is a HP drive (which is true) and lists a model number.

Thanks

My pleasure.