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Hi, Can anybody give the command which gives Harddisk details like Mode, Size, Interface type, totoal cylinders, totoal heads, totoal sector etc... Regds, Venu.G...
  1. 04-28-2005 #1
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    linux command to know hard disk details

    Hi,
    Can anybody give the command which gives Harddisk details like Mode, Size, Interface type, totoal cylinders, totoal heads, totoal sector etc...

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    About the best you're going to get is fdisk -l

    You'll get most of the info you're looking for. The command must be run as root.
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    hdparm is what you're looking for
    Code:
    hdparm -I /dev/hda
    Screenshot: http://web01.slackhost.net/~admin74/pictures/hdparm.png
    you need to be root to use it, if you don't have it you can get it here
    http://sourceforge.net/projects/hdparm/
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