[Gllug] disk speed info

[Ben Fitzgerald]

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.

hdparm -I /dev/hda (or whatever your drive happens to be).

what you don't get from hdparm you can get from the manufacturers
web-site using the model number displayed by hdparm.

ben.

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