SCSI Device Make & Model

[Steven Palser]

A long while back I remember stumbling onto a command under SCO
OpenServer5 where I was able to read from the SCSI devices firmware
and pull out the device manufacturer, device model number, and some
other tidbits of info. I seem to remember that I was able to use a
unix command to pass scsi commands to the devices. I am having
trouble retracing my steps in trying to "re-stumble" onto this
lucrative command.

I will keep looking but thought I might throw this out to the news
group on the chance that someone out there can jog my feeble old
memory a little.

Thanks in advance.

[Jean-Pierre Radley]

Steven Palser propounded (on Fri, Aug 10, 2001 at 11:11:11AM -0700):

I can't remember anuy OSR 5 command for that, but cdreord -scanbus
returns information like this:

0,0,0 0) 'QUANTUM ' 'ATLAS10K2-TY184L' 'DDD6' Disk
0,1,0 1) *
0,2,0 2) 'HP ' 'C1537A ' 'L005' Removable Tape
0,3,0 3) *
0,4,0 4) *
0,5,0 5) 'MATSHITA' 'CD-R CW-7503 ' '1.08' Removable CD-ROM
0,6,0 6) *
0,7,0 7) *

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JP

[jack craig]

sppa...@yahoo.com (Steven Palser) wrote in message news:<dd543695.01081...@posting.google.com>...

> A long while back I remember stumbling onto a command under SCO
> OpenServer5 where I was able to read from the SCSI devices firmware
> and pull out the device manufacturer, device model number, and some
> other tidbits of info. I seem to remember that I was able to use a
> unix command to pass scsi commands to the devices. I am having
> trouble retracing my steps in trying to "re-stumble" onto this
> lucrative command.

while i am aware of /etc/sconf, i am not recalling what you seem to
describe. note that all our target drivers support a scsiuserioctl
so that pass through commands are pretty easy for a userland program.

need a sample?

>
> I will keep looking but thought I might throw this out to the news
> group on the chance that someone out there can jog my feeble old
> memory a little.

mine is sure to be as feeble as yours! ;)

hth, jackc...

>
> Thanks in advance.

[Tom Melvin]

Steven Palser commented on:

Have a look at TA 104990 this has a little C program for getting some
of the info you mention.

Tom

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[Stephen M. Dunn]

In article <2001081222...@tkrh.demon.co.uk> Tom Melvin <t...@tkrh.demon.co.uk> writes:
$Steven Palser commented on:
$> A long while back I remember stumbling onto a command under SCO
$> OpenServer5 where I was able to read from the SCSI devices firmware
$> and pull out the device manufacturer, device model number, and some
$> other tidbits of info.
[...]
$Have a look at TA 104990 this has a little C program for getting some
$of the info you mention.

There's also a program I have at the office called SCSIQuery
(not sure on the capitalization). I'm not 100% sure but I _think_
it was a downloadable freebie from either Microlite
(ftp://ftp.microlite.com/) or Cactus (ftp://ftp.cactus.com/).
You might have a look to see if you can find it and, if so,
if it does what you want.
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[Peri]

Not quite what you mention but perhaps of use to you?

I downloaded a command from seagate which will give you
few bits of info on the tape drive ( inquire.exe ) including
the firmware.

you have to open it up under dos / windows then transfer to unix
the command itself is # inquire and comes with a readme.txt

If I use it I get this result:
/dev/xct0: Seagate STT20000N 7A61