[Gllug] disk speed info

[John Edwards]

On Sun, Mar 06, 2005 at 01:02:41PM +0000, Minty wrote:
> is there a way to find out what the specs of an ide disk are, without
> physically opening up the box and searching for the disk label?
> 
> specifically stuff like the revolutions per min, buffer/cache sizes, etc.
> 
> ps. goes without saying I've no idea what make/model is currently in there.

The contents of /proc/ide/hda/model will give you the drive's model 
number. The other files in /proc/ide/hda/ may give you some of the 
required information (eg cache), but not all (eg revolutions/min). 
With the model number you can always check the manufacturer specs 
for any missing details.

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