topic listing disks, devices, etc. in Operating System - Linux

listing disks, devices, etc.

Ken Hunter — Wed, 01 Aug 2001 21:25:04 GMT

This has to be among the simplest of questions - but in HPUX 10.20 - I can do a 'ioscan -f' for example, and list all the disks with scsi id's, other devices, etc.
Okay - well how is this done in RedHat Linux 6.2? I have to believe there is a magic command that does this and probably more.

thanks in advance,

Ken :)

Re: listing disks, devices, etc.

Mike Brown_3 — Thu, 02 Aug 2001 08:54:15 GMT

HP-UX is, without doubt, the leader in this area - I've never found a decent competitor to "ioscan".
I think you'll find "linuxconf" is your best option which not only allows you to list components in your box, but also allows you to reconfigure them.

HTH,
Mike.

Re: listing disks, devices, etc.

linuxfan — Fri, 03 Aug 2001 01:53:09 GMT

Hi Ken,

If you are only looking for the devices then do
cat /proc/devices, you can look into /proc directory, you would find most of the information there (io,interrupts,modules, etc)
Here is another link which might help you for commands on different *nix's
http://unix-guide.addr.com/unixguide.shtml

-Hope that helps
I am RU

Re: listing disks, devices, etc.

Terry Rodery — Sun, 05 Aug 2001 18:57:51 GMT

Hey,

Check dmesg for scsi information or install the cdrecord package and do cdrecord -scanbus and I believe that can give you some addtional information regarding scsi devices.