[since you're a top-poster, i'll top-post too ;)] in kernel 2.4, for SCSI disks, there is support for at most 16 * 16 = 256 devices. there are 16 major numbers (listed in the kernel's documentation), and for each of them, there are minors 0, 16, 32, 48.... that are used for the devices (the minors in between are used for partitions, which you don't seem to care about). you could then run a loop that scans the list of combinations, and check whether each of them exists. if so - they are disks - use the standard tools to get their info. to get vendor + model - use the sg_inq utility from sg3utils - it should be available for kernel 2.4 too. note that this might also include usb mass-storage devices (disk-on-key, cameras...), since they are exposed as scsi disks.
you could also look in /proc/scsi/devices for the available SCSI LUNs (this will include tapes too). i imagine you could do a similar thing with IDE and SATA disks. also note that if a new LUN is added to the network, the linux kernel will NOT notice it. i don't know if it matters to you, but just FYI. --guy On Thu, 2006-10-12 at 11:46 +0200, Jacob Broido wrote: > Hey, > as mentioned by Amos, there is a tool called lshal, which works in > 2.6.x , not sure about 2.4.x - (Any comments on this?) > lshal is much more usefull than lspci and it provides more details > info. > > The missing information from lshal is the disk size. This can be > easily extracted using blockdev --size <blockdev>. <blockdev> == > blockdev returned by lshal. > > 2.4.x indeed seems like a problem at the moment. > > > > On 10/12/06, Oleg Goldshmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Jacob Broido" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hey, > > > > > > > > I've been looking for some time for a way to list all > scsi,sata,ide devices > > that are currently 'seen' by the linux host. > > > > > > > > The tool should do the following: > > > > 1) Find all HBAs in the host. > > > > 2)Query each HBA (should be HBA agnostic) > > > > 3) Query each device returned by HBA query, and extract the > following: > > size,type,vendor > > With 2.6 some (most?) of what you want can be done by quering > and > manipulating sysfs, e.g., > > echo "- - -" > /sys/class/scsi_host/host[N]/scan > > will do a SCSI bus scan. With 2.4 things are more difficult, > and there > are tools that work for different HBAs, e.g., scsi-qlascan for > QLogic > etc. Unless your device is exposed (by the driver) in sysfs > you will > probably need a vendor-specific tool. > > Also, does "lspci -vvv" or similar give you anything that you > can use? > > If you find anything generic, a useful script or set of > scripts for > 2.6, do let me know. > > -- > Oleg Goldshmidt | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | > http://www.goldshmidt.org > > > > -- > Not gonna be king of the world if you're slave to the grind > - Skid Row ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
