topic Re: Is there a Linux equiv. of ioscan or diskinfo (as per HP-UX) in Operating System - Linux

Is there a Linux equiv. of ioscan or diskinfo (as per HP-UX)

Scott Donaldson — Tue, 30 Jan 2001 19:52:12 GMT

Hi,

I am wondering if Linux (Red Hat 6.x/7.x) offers an equivalent tool to HP-UX's ioscan or diskinfo.

I want to be able to determine the manufacturer and model of online SCSI disks.

TIA,

Scott.

Re: Is there a Linux equiv. of ioscan or diskinfo (as per HP-UX)

Marco_5 — Wed, 31 Jan 2001 01:02:02 GMT

Of course there is, iostat command reports CPU statistics and i/o statitstics for tty devices and disks.

iostat

Re: Is there a Linux equiv. of ioscan or diskinfo (as per HP-UX)

Marco Hernandez_1 — Wed, 31 Jan 2001 01:16:39 GMT

Scott,

Try iostat command, this reports CPU statistics and i/o statitstics for tty devices and disk.

(Same Marco but you can give me points here)

Re: Is there a Linux equiv. of ioscan or diskinfo (as per HP-UX)

Jeroen_D — Wed, 31 Jan 2001 09:44:45 GMT

Hi,

the easiest way to check for the hardware is in the /proc directory

Do a cat /proc/pci to know what the PCI-devices are. You can do the same thing to know interrupts in use, etc.. just check the contents of the proc directory.
It is a virtual directory containing info about your hardware and it takes no space on your harddrive.

Hope this helps,
Jeroen.

Re: Is there a Linux equiv. of ioscan or diskinfo (as per HP-UX)

Markus Oppel — Wed, 31 Jan 2001 10:23:33 GMT

for scsi disks it's best
to look at the proc filesystem:
cat /proc/scsi/scsi gives
info about your scsi devices.

for ide disks you can use
hdparm with -i:
/sbin/hdparm -i /dev/hda

Markus

Re: Is there a Linux equiv. of ioscan or diskinfo (as per HP-UX)

Tim Malnati — Wed, 31 Jan 2001 17:50:54 GMT

The /proc file system is usually the best source of everything running on your machine and most of the other unix based utilities taht have a similar function use it directly. Most of the files under the file system will allow you directly output the contents with the cat, more or less commands.

Re: Is there a Linux equiv. of ioscan or diskinfo (as per HP-UX)

Tony Constantine_1 — Sun, 04 Feb 2001 14:56:38 GMT

Hi Scott

You can try this link, its give you different operating systems and their equivalent commands

http://home.earthlink.net/~bhami/rosetta.html