Getting hard drive serial number from USB devices

[Madison Kelly]

Peter wrote:
> 
> 
> 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

Aye... for some reason the serial number just isn't shown... At this 
point I would just like to know why.

Madison

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