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Seeing the device name by df, is it somehow possible to resolve it to the physical drive name such as vendor / type.

/dev/sda3               915.4G     34.9G    880.0G   4% /share/HDA_DATA
/dev/sdd3                 1.8T    668.1G      1.1T  36% /share/HDD_DATA

I have learnt that I find some info in sys/block, but I do not find the vendor's type name in there?

-- Added --

My system is a Linux based QNAP NAS, so things might be a little different there.

-- Added as of Steven's answer --

[~] # hdparm -I /dev/sdb3

/dev/sdb3:
 HDIO_DRIVE_CMD(identify) failed: Invalid argument
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  • Maybe you have more luck with dmesg or dmesg | grep -C10 sda.
    – jippie
    Jun 2, 2012 at 18:26
  • Or sudo smartctl --all /dev/sda (requires root privileges).
    – jippie
    Jun 2, 2012 at 18:27
  • The dmesg approach works, thx. Will rate your answer below as correct, and add a comment. Jun 2, 2012 at 22:08
  • Similar messages will appear in /var/log/syslog or /var/log/dmesg. Exact file name is highly dependent on distribution.
    – jippie
    Jun 2, 2012 at 22:16

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sudo lshw -class disk
  *-cdrom                 
       description: DVD-RAM writer
       product: CDDVDW SH-S223Q
       vendor: TSSTcorp
       physical id: 0
       bus info: scsi@0:0.0.0
       logical name: /dev/cdrom
       logical name: /dev/cdrw
       logical name: /dev/dvd
       logical name: /dev/dvdrw
       logical name: /dev/sr0
       version: SB02
       capabilities: removable audio cd-r cd-rw dvd dvd-r dvd-ram
       configuration: ansiversion=5 status=ready
     *-medium
          physical id: 0
          logical name: /dev/cdrom
  *-disk
       description: ATA Disk
       product: WDC WD1600AAJS-0
       vendor: Western Digital
       physical id: 1
       bus info: scsi@1:0.0.0
       logical name: /dev/sda
       version: 01.0
       serial: WD-WMAV2P964464
       size: 149GiB (160GB)
       capabilities: partitioned partitioned:dos
       configuration: ansiversion=5 signature=000c0805
  *-disk
       description: SCSI Disk
       physical id: 0.0.0
       bus info: scsi@6:0.0.0
       logical name: /dev/sdb
       size: 931GiB (1TB)
       capabilities: partitioned partitioned:dos
       configuration: signature=a39eabc7
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  • On my QNAP NAS I do not find this lshw command. Checked /sbin /usr/sbin Any idea where else I could find it? I believe you this is working, unfortunately not on my Linux based NAS. Jun 2, 2012 at 17:54
  • I am using the dmesg approach, as in jippie's comment above. Will rate this as answer anyway, since it is correct. Jun 2, 2012 at 22:10
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The QNAP NAS products run firmware that is essentially a custom Linux distro. It is quite spartan, with a minimal set of command line tools (and many of those provided by busybox). Fortunately, there is a decent implementation of hdparm in there, so you should be able to query a drive, as follows:

hdparm -I /dev/sda

Here's the output I get from a "QNAP TS-239 Pro NAS" with a "Western Digital RE4 1TB" drive (output is verbatim, except for the drive's serial number, which I have purposely obscured):

/dev/sda:

ATA device, with non-removable media
    Model Number:       WDC WD1003FBYX-01Y7B0                   
    Serial Number:      AB-CDEF01234567
    Firmware Revision:  01.01V01
Standards:
    Supported: 8 7 6 5 
    Likely used: 8
Configuration:
    Logical     max current
    cylinders   16383   16383
    heads       16  16
    sectors/track   63  63
    --
    CHS current addressable sectors:   16514064
    LBA    user addressable sectors:  268435455
    LBA48  user addressable sectors: 1953525168
    device size with M = 1024*1024:      953869 MBytes
    device size with M = 1000*1000:     1000204 MBytes (1000 GB)
Capabilities:
    LBA, IORDY(can be disabled)
    Queue depth: 32
    Standby timer values: spec'd by Standard, with device specific minimum
    R/W multiple sector transfer: Max = 16  Current = 0
    Advanced power management level: unknown setting (0x0080)
    Recommended acoustic management value: 128, current value: 254
    DMA: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 udma5 *udma6 
         Cycle time: min=120ns recommended=120ns
    PIO: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4 
         Cycle time: no flow control=120ns  IORDY flow control=120ns
Commands/features:
    Enabled Supported:
       *    NOP cmd
       *    READ BUFFER cmd
       *    WRITE BUFFER cmd
       *    Host Protected Area feature set
       *    Look-ahead
       *    Write cache
       *    Power Management feature set
            Security Mode feature set
       *    SMART feature set
       *    FLUSH CACHE EXT command
       *    Mandatory FLUSH CACHE command 
       *    Device Configuration Overlay feature set 
       *    48-bit Address feature set 
       *    Automatic Acoustic Management feature set 
            SET MAX security extension
       *    SET FEATURES subcommand required to spinup after power up
            Power-Up In Standby feature set
       *    Advanced Power Management feature set
       *    DOWNLOAD MICROCODE cmd
       *    General Purpose Logging feature set
       *    SMART self-test 
       *    SMART error logging 
Security: 
    Master password revision code = 65534
        supported
    not enabled
    not locked
    not frozen
    not expired: security count
        supported: enhanced erase
    168min for SECURITY ERASE UNIT. 168min for ENHANCED SECURITY ERASE UNIT.
Checksum: correct

"Vendor" and "Type" are not explicitly reported by hdparm. However, "Model Number" is reported, and a quick web search on it should yield anything you need to know about a drive.

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  • Sounds good, in my case I do get the following response: HDIO_DRIVE_CMD(identify) failed: Invalid argument Have updated question. Jun 2, 2012 at 23:31
  • @Horst: Try hdparm -I /dev/sdb instead. /dev/sdb3 is most likely not a drive, but a partition, and hdparm needs a drive. Jun 3, 2012 at 2:06
  • Thanks for the hint, but no luck. I have tried sda, sdb, sdb3, sda3 etc, all the same issue HDIO_DRIVE_CMD(identify) failed: Invalid argument Run it as admin, which should be root on QNAP, sudo I cannot find (tried sudo hdparm ...) Jun 3, 2012 at 8:50
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Most modern Linux systems use udev to manage devices. This isn't the case on all embedded devices though; I don't know whether this specific device uses udev.

udevadm info -n /dev/sda3 -a
udevadm info -n /dev/sda3 -q property

will print everything the system knows about /dev/sda3. This is the same info you'll find in /sys, but udev does the work of walking down the hierarchy to collect all the data.

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  • Again no luck with my QNAP system, udevadm not available. Nevertheless we do have a comprehensive summary of commands here right now, thanks. Jun 4, 2012 at 8:05
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Install gsmartcontrol a GUI tool with loads of information: http://gsmartcontrol.berlios.de/home/images/info_identity.png

gsmartcontrol (1)    - Hard disk drive health inspection tool
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  • Useful hint, but the system is a QNAP NAS, I cannot install GUI related tools. Thanks anyway, and sorry that I did not tell this in the question. Jun 2, 2012 at 17:33
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I had this problem too. I discovered command:

/sbin/get_hd_smartinfo

When run with out args prints usage guide.

To connect disk number to device use like this:

/sbin/get_hd_smartinfo -d 2 -i 1

Press ctrl-c to terminate and it will print "Save file to /tmp/sdX_smart_zzzzzzz" where sdX is your device.

[/var/log] # /sbin/get_hd_smartinfo -d 2 -i 1 
001 Raw_Read_Error_Rate          215244560 119 099 006 OK
...
242 Lifetime_Reads_To_Host       23449824883497 100 253 000 OK
^CCatch interrupt Singal,Interrupt ..
Save file to /tmp/sdb_smart_563ffc1c

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