topic Re: Determining Drive Serial Number? in Operating System - HP-UX

Determining Drive Serial Number?

Roger Lavender — Thu, 24 Aug 2000 16:06:41 GMT

Is there a way to determine the serial number of a disk drive without removing it from a "J-BOD" (Jamacia Box) disk array.

Re: Determining Drive Serial Number?

melvyn burnard — Thu, 24 Aug 2000 16:31:02 GMT

If I remember correctly you can get this using the STM utilities (Support Tool Manager)
I can not remember exact steps, but I think you select the disk, and run information on it and then read the results.
I think...

Re: Determining Drive Serial Number?

James R. Ferguson — Thu, 24 Aug 2000 16:31:50 GMT

Roger:

If you have DIAGNOSTICS installed, try running stm. Choose the disk, then Tools -> Information -> Info.

...JRF...

Re: Determining Drive Serial Number?

Eddie Warren — Thu, 24 Aug 2000 16:34:55 GMT

Roger,
You can get the serial number by using "Support Tool Manager" "stm". Once you start stm, scroll down to drive you would like to get info of. Make sure it is highlighted by using your space bar.
Tab to top Menu bar, Tools, Information, Run. This gives you all the information you need for the drives.
Hope this helps.

Re: Determining Drive Serial Number?

Stuart McNabb — Wed, 30 Aug 2000 00:45:06 GMT

G'day,
Easiest way to get a serial number of a disk is the following:

ioscan -FnCdisk -> look at the 12th field i.e

scsi:wsio:T:T:F:31:188:24576:disk:sdisk:8/0/19/0.6.0:0 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 120 244 10 195 107 251 65 59 :0:root.bc.GSCtoPCI.c720.tgt.sdisk:sdisk:CLAIMED:DEVICE:IBM DDRS-39130WS:0

So from this the serial number of the disk is 0 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 120 244 10 195 107 251 65 59 -> this of course is the internal serial number of the physical device, nothing to do with the serial number on the sticky label :)

Cheers
Stuart

Re: Determining Drive Serial Number?

Patrick Wessel — Wed, 30 Aug 2000 07:21:29 GMT

The serial number that you receive online is a unique identifier but not the same serial number that is printed on the disk mech