Getting hard drive serial number from USB devices

[Peter]

On Sat, 14 Jan 2006, Sy Ali wrote:

> On 1/14/06, Madison Kelly <linux-5ZoueyuiTZhBDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>> PS - I'm still looking for a way to get the serial number from USB
>> connected hard drives... :p
>
> John DiMarco[1] maintains scsiinfo[2], a a SCSI information tool for
> Sun systems.
>
> cat /proc/scsi/scsi gives some info..  Is it relevant?
>
> I haven't tried it, but there is sdparm[3].  It says that it can get a
> serial number.  quote:

I don't think that it's going to work for IDE attached to a USB adaptor. 
At best, it may give the s/n of the usb-scsi driver.

Peter
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