What command and/or program would I use to tell what hard drive kind I have? Thanks for the answer lol!
Raskuten wrote:
> What command and/or program would I use to tell what hard drive kind I
> have? Thanks for the answer lol!
hwinfo --disk
> What command and/or program would I use to tell what hard drive kind I
> have? Thanks for the answer lol!
by “what hard drive kind” do you mean IDE, SATA, SCSI etc?
YaST > Hardware > Hardware Information > Block Devices
and explore under /dev/sd*, /dev/hd* etc
and, under Hardware Information > Disk AND/OR > IDE
there is probably a command line magic, but i don’t know it…
but, if by “what hard drive kind” do you mean Seagate, Western
Digital, IBM, etc then i think you need to pop the case open and
take a peek…
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primary
Another one:
hdparm -i /dev/sda
As always: many ways to do things. Choose your favorite.