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тАО06-29-2010 04:20 AM
тАО06-29-2010 04:20 AM
collecting information about the HDD media
I'm using a server model number 504633-001 (Proliant DL360 G6 XENON X5550 QC 2.66 GHz, 2P, 12GB; PERFORMANCE SERVER KIT) with 8 HDD's model number 507127-B21 (300 GB SFF SAS Drives 10K spin (6G)).
On this system I'm having installed VMware ESX 4.0. I've tried to collect some data (most important information being the HDD serial number) by means of sdparm application. I've used an already compiled binary and a binary compiled by myself on this machine.
No matter the version number the results were:
> sdparm -vvvv /dev/sdb5
> open /dev/sdb5 with flags=0x800
inquiry cdb: 12 00 00 00 24 00
duration=0 ms
inquiry: requested 36 bytes but got 0 bytes
inquiry: got too few bytes (0)
SCSI INQUIRY command failed on /dev/sdb5
It looks like the SCSI controller is not supporting that inquiry. Any idea why is that? What are the alternatives?
Thanks in advance for your help.
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тАО06-29-2010 04:32 AM
тАО06-29-2010 04:32 AM
Re: collecting information about the HDD media
If you want information about the physical disks it is best if you use HP's diagnostic utilities like SmartStart or Array Diagnostic Utility (ADU).
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тАО06-29-2010 11:18 AM
тАО06-29-2010 11:18 AM
Re: collecting information about the HDD media
you oculd also use ILO to check the HW configuration.
mikap
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тАО06-29-2010 06:49 PM
тАО06-29-2010 06:49 PM
Re: collecting information about the HDD media
http://www.mjmwired.net/kernel/Documentation/cciss.txt
The device naming scheme is:
68 /dev/cciss/c0d0 Controller 0, disk 0, whole device
69 /dev/cciss/c0d0p1 Controller 0, disk 0, partition 1
70 /dev/cciss/c0d0p2 Controller 0, disk 0, partition 2
71 /dev/cciss/c0d0p3 Controller 0, disk 0, partition 3
72
73 /dev/cciss/c1d1 Controller 1, disk 1, whole device
74 /dev/cciss/c1d1p1 Controller 1, disk 1, partition 1
75 /dev/cciss/c1d1p2 Controller 1, disk 1, partition 2
76 /dev/cciss/c1d1p3 Controller 1, disk 1, partition 3
dont feel 100% sure that esx uses the same estructure but I am sure this will get you on the correct direction
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тАО06-29-2010 09:32 PM
тАО06-29-2010 09:32 PM
Re: collecting information about the HDD media
But if you are looking for the 'serial number' zhat is used for warranty tracking - I don't think that is stored *in* the drive memory.
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