Hello,

I am now writing a program to tell different vendors among lot of disks. SCSI Command INQUIRY 0x83 VPD page could tell me sth like "Product identification: ST3160812AS". However, the same Vendor has a lot of product model. So it should be required to add almost every disk model in my check list to see whether a strang disk belongs to or not. Is there any other smart way/info help me identify disk vendor efficiently?

I need to set up such a list for Available Vendor List(AVL).

Thanks in advance,

cdcshu

Did you try just:

cat /proc/scsi/scsi

Hello macemoneta,

Thanks. However, it just spit out the same info as INQUIRY does.
No obvious vendor name found.

[root@cdcshu ~]# cat /proc/scsi/scsi
Attached devices:
......
Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 02 Lun: 00
Vendor: ATA Model: ST3160812AS Rev: E
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05
Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 13 Lun: 00
Vendor: ATA Model: ST3160812AS Rev: E
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05
Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 17 Lun: 00
Vendor: ATA Model: HDS725050KLA360 Rev: AH0A
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05
[root@cdcshu ~]#

In above last two disks, both are addressed as ATA as vendor name. Actually, ST3160812AS is from Seagate and HDS725050KLA360 Hitachi.

Thanks again,

cdcshu

Your vendor hasn't included the information, it can't be retrieved.

#lshw -class disk
*-disk
description: ATA Disk
product: ST3300622A
vendor: Seagate
physical id: 0
bus info: ide@0.0
logical name: /dev/hda
version: 3.AAH
serial: 4NF1ZL6E
size: 279GB
capabilities: ata dma lba iordy smart security pm partitioned partitioned:dos
configuration: mode=udma5 smart=on

Hello 2damncommon,

I wonder where you got the nice command "lshw -class disk". There is no such command "lshw" on my machine. Besides, does it work for SCSI Disk as well?

Thanks,

cdcshu

You can use:

hdparm -i /dev/hda

or

sdparm --all /dev/sda

sdparm is available from the fedora repo and is for scsi drives. With the kernel change (f7) treating all drives as sda type, I would imagine the hdparm will be phased out or absorbed by sdparm.

Lazlow

The lshw command is available in many distribution repositories. For Fedora Core 6, it's here.

It is on Ubuntu. For some reason I thought you were using Ubuntu when I posted it but I see now that is not so.
There are a couple hardware detection tools available to Linux.
Try an "apropos hardware" to check for installed programs or try searching for "hardware" in the package manager for not installed options.
Here is some info on lshw.

Hi 2damncommon,

I got the utility code and compiled on my PC. It did work for device tree list. However, I still cannot get any vendor info
in that.

# lshw -class disk
......
*-disk:12
description: SCSI Disk
product: ST3160812AS
vendor: ATA
physical id: 0.d.0
bus info: scsi@0:0.13.0
logical name: /dev/sdm
version: E
serial: 5LS44V7A
size: 149GB
capacity: 149GB
configuration: ansiversion=5
*-disk:13
description: SCSI Disk
product: HDS725050KLA360
vendor: ATA
physical id: 0.11.0
bus info: scsi@0:0.17.0
logical name: /dev/sdn
version: AH0A
serial: KRVN65ZAKLNXBF
size: 465GB
capacity: 465GB
configuration: ansiversion=5
...

Vendor name is still the same as other way as 'ATA'.

Thanks for all your help, anyway. Basically, I cannot get
the vendor name directly on the Server, I am afraid.

[root@cdcshu src]# uname -a
Linux cdcshu.u1.net 2.6.9-34.ELsmp #1 SMP Fri Feb 24 16:54:53 EST 2006 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
[root@cdcshu src]#

cdcshu

Then this would seem to be correct: