Re: Problem with Seagate HDD
On Sun 20 December 2009 06:39:30 am James Brown wrote:
> I had upgraded the HDD of my laptop "Acer TravelMate3040 (working under
> Debian AMD64) to the Seagate ST9500420AS 500 GB.
> It seems that it works fine but I have the next result of the smartctl
> now: http://paste.org.ru/?hb4nsx
> In the beginning of using it I had the next result:
> http://paste.org.ru/?ouzru9
> I have read that the smartctl can get very strandge results for Seagate
> HDDs and it may be not so terrible as it seems.
> Have anyone an opinion concirning this matter?
> And the next question, how can I get the serial number of my Seagate HDD
> without drawning it out from my notebook?
> I want to send request to the Seagate technical support but tor it I
> must register on their site with that number and their site don't want
> it the serial number that I can get with exicuting commands "smartctl"
> or "hdparm".
James,
One program that will do this is sginfo, found in the sg3-utils package (at
least, on a Debian system).
cmr
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