Re: [smartmontools-support] SMART utility

[Jim P. <ji...@jt...>]

Ajeet Singh wrote:
> Dear Sir,
>  i am using LInux (RHEL 4.0), I am trying to get The hard disk serial no thrugh 
>  SMART utility, it is showing MODEL no and SERIAL NO .of IDE Hard Disk properly .
>  but in case of SATA Disk it is showing only MODEL NO only, not showing Serial NO.
>  can i Do this  with the help SMART .  
>  I am Writing command
> 
>   smartcrtl -i /dev/hd[a-z]   working  fine 
>  
>   and when i am Writing 
> 
>   smartcrtl -i /dev/sd[a-z]
> 
>   it showing only  Device Model no.
> 
>   how i can get  serial no also of Sata Device. 

For SATA disks, you need to add "-d ata"

-jim