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Beginners Hard drive / CD-ROM questions

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by norman ghast

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Could someone with a lot of patience tell me how to read the make and model of the hard drive and the CD speed for our Unix server(SCO Openserver)?

I could follow a string of commands at the Unix prompt if given them, but am a total beginner in X-Windows / Unix

Thanks in advance

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by gutridgesj

Real quick, log on as root and look at the file called /usr/adm/hwconfig

use can use:
#more /usr/adm/hwconfig
or use
#pg /usr/adm/hwconfig

That will give you a list of all the devices on the machine.

by bowieb

CD's are fairly generic these days. I don't know of any way to find this information from the OS. The hwconfig will tell you which IDE card and if it's the master or slave, but that's about it.

The easiest way to find out the Make, Model, and speed of your CDROM is to read it from the cdrom drive itself (either printed on the front, or on a sticker on the bottom).

There may be some software that can measure your transfer speed, but I don't know of any offhand.

by jdogg

Apart from the physically checkinh the drice as noted above the only way I know to get the information is to read the BIOS messages during bootup

by roger.gibson

Simply at the prompt enter hwconfig. By the way enter swconfig to see what software you have loaded on your system also.

The printouts of both od these should be printed and stored in an admin book about your server just in case something happens.
Good luck

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