Hard drive serial number with System Management Homepage

[bttic]

Hello, 

I'm using a Proliant DL 385  G7 with a RHEL6. HPSim 7 is installed.

I'm trying to get the serial number of the server hard drives;  i reached it through  the System Management Homepage (home - storage - controller SmartArray p410i) but it seems some characters are added in the serial number field.

For instance, let's assume my serial number is AC51DC239867 (by memory ;)) , the serial number field is  AC51DC2398671212...

(i have that problem on all server drives, but not always the same characters added)

Is it a kind of padding, because of some character set ? Or do these numbers have real meaning ?

Thanx for your help, 

Jean

[Jimmy Vance]

Have you tried using hpacucli from the command line to see what it reports for the serial numbers?

[bttic]

hpacucli gives the same result than System Management Homepage ... 

However i've watched the hard drive itself and the last numbers are not written

[bttic]

I have 2 servers, it's the same for the 2 disks of each servers.

But for our blades BL460c G7, the serial numbers indicated in SMH & hpacucli are the good ones (same as written on disk)...

[bttic]

with hpacucli, i can see, in the drives information output (with command : controller serialnumber=BLA physicaldrive BLA:BLO:BLU show), that the firmware revision is different 

on servers (where i have the problem)

Firmware Revision : HPD4

on blades(where the information is correct)

Firmware Revision : HPD6

Maybe the revision HPD4 isn't ok ?