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From: Aragorn on 29 Apr 2010 11:16
On Monday 26 April 2010 03:51 in comp.os.linux.setup, somebody
identifying as Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote...

> On Apr 25, 12:44 pm, "David W. Hodgins" <dwhodg...(a)nomail.afraid.org>
> wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 25 Apr 2010 10:54:33 -0400, Ant <a...(a)zimage.comant> wrote:
>> > Thanks. Do I assume SCSI will still the same values too? How does
>> > one tell apart if you have both ATA and SCSI together (not that I
>> > will ever a SCSI device/card)?
>>
>> Yes.  Determining whether it's a scsi drive, ide, sata, or something
>> else can no longer be done based on the device name.  Lower level
>> tools are required for that.
>>
>> One thing to keep in mind, is that scsi drives have a limit of 15
>> partitions.
>
> What kind of crack monkey slaps more than 15 partitions on one drive?

The kind of crack monkey whose "drive" is actually physically a hardware
RAID array and who uses multiple virtual machines, all with their own
filesystems, maybe? <grin>

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*Aragorn*
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From: bzaman on 29 Apr 2010 23:56
On Apr 26, 1:22 am, Ant <a...(a)zimage.comANT> wrote:
> On 4/25/2010 9:44 AM PT, David W. Hodgins typed:
>
> > On Sun, 25 Apr 2010 10:54:33 -0400, Ant <a...(a)zimage.comant> wrote:
>
> >> Thanks. Do I assume SCSI will still the same values too? How does one
> >> tell apart if you have both ATA and SCSI together (not that I will ever
> >> a SCSI device/card)?
>
> > Yes. Determining whether it's a scsi drive, ide, sata, or something else
> > can no longer be done based on the device name. Lower level tools are
> > required for that.
>
> Which tools? Fdisk?

smartctl will also also help for this with other information like
firmware version,Serial No etc.


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