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Re: [LUG] Basic hd question




Try something like:

$ dmesg|grep hd
   ide0: BM-DMA at 0x3000-0x3007, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio
   ide1: BM-DMA at 0x3008-0x300f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
hda: QUANTUM FIREBALL EX6.4A, ATA DISK drive
hdb: WDC AC2170M, ATA DISK drive
hda: QUANTUM FIREBALL EX6.4A, 6149MB w/418kB Cache, CHS=784/255/63, (U)DMA
hdb: WDC AC2170M, 162MB w/32kB Cache, CHS=1010/6/55
hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 hda6 hda7 hda8 >
hdb: hdb1


On Tue, 26 Mar 2002, jody salt wrote:

I may sound completely stupid
but how do you get a list the available hard drives on
your system. If you have only got two hard drives they
should be (hda and hdb) right? -- or am I wrong
I need to be able to do this from a command line


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