Re: [CentOS-docs] New page TipsAndTricks/IdentifyHardDisk

[pjwelsh <pjwelsh@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 06/10/2011 10:46 AM, Marko A. Jennings wrote:
> On Fri, June 10, 2011 11:18 am, Phil Schaffner wrote:
>> For the inspection of the docs group:
>>
>> http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/IdentifyHardDisk
> hdparm -I fails on 4 of my machines with SATA disks attached to 3ware RAID
> controllers in JBOD configuration and a fifth one with SCSI disks attached
> to an LSI Logic RAID controller (JBOD as well) with the following message:
>
> [root@host ~]# hdparm -I /dev/sd?
>
> /dev/sda:
>  HDIO_DRIVE_CMD(identify) failed: Invalid argument
>
> /dev/sdb:
>  HDIO_DRIVE_CMD(identify) failed: Invalid argument
>
> Might be good to include a note that the command does not work for all
> disk/controller configurations.
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Nice catch Marko, fails identically on my Dell PERC[56] controllers in RAID
configuration, but that's why I use Dell's OMSA software.

pjwelsh
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