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With sfdisk -s I can see the disk capacity as follows:

$ sfdisk -s
/dev/cciss/c0d0: 143338560
total: 143338560 blocks

How do I see disk details like disk manufacturer? I tried hdparm, but got an error:

$ hdparm -i  /dev/cciss/c0d0
/dev/cciss/c0d0:
HDIO_GET_IDENTITY failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device
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Try these commands:

lshw -class disk  

hwinfo --disk

You may have to install hwinfo.

Concerning hdparm:
hdparm(8) says: 

Although this utility is intended primarily for use with SATA/IDE hard disk 
devices, several of the options are also valid (and permitted) for use with 
SCSI hard disk devices and MFM/RLL hard disks with XT interfaces.

and:

Some options (eg. -r for SCSI) may not work with old kernels as necessary 
ioctl()´s were not supported.
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  • the command hwinfo & lshw are not installed in my linux
    – user3266
    Commented Dec 22, 2010 at 13:36
  • can you provide some more information about your system?
    – wag
    Commented Dec 22, 2010 at 17:07
  • @jennifer: Install at least one of them! All the information they return is available elsewhere, but they have the advantage of collecting all that information from many different places.
    – Gilles 'SO- stop being evil'
    Commented Dec 22, 2010 at 19:50
  • Running the command lshw -class disk as a regular user does not display information on disk (Ubuntu 15.04). Hopefully the bottom printed line says "WARNING: output may be incomplete or inaccurate, you should run this program as super-user." Running again using sudo fixes the issue :-)
    – oHo
    Commented Oct 20, 2015 at 21:13
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    The name /dev/cciss/c0d0 indicates the OP's system uses a HP SmartArray hardware RAID controller, and so any "disk" shown by it is actually a RAID set, which may or may not correspond directly to any single physical disk. In that specific situation, you'll need a tool that knows how to talk to the RAID controller and get the information on actual physical drives from it. hwinfo, lshw or smartctl mentioned in other answers all understand some types of hardware RAID controllers; a vendor-specific RAID management tool will usually get the most information.
    – telcoM
    Commented May 7, 2019 at 4:44
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You could read the disk properties directly through sysfs, also check the other files/dirs in /sys/class/block/sda/device/ (replace sda with drive you need).

cat /sys/class/block/sda/device/{model,vendor}
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  • I dont have block directory
    – user3266
    Commented Dec 22, 2010 at 13:36
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    Use a recent kernel maybe, what distro are you using? try dmesg | less, should see the disks get probed.
    – OneOfOne
    Commented Dec 22, 2010 at 14:20
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    @jennifer: cat /sys/block/sd?/device/{model,vendor} (/sys/class/block only appeared fairly recently, and your distribution is a little old).
    – Gilles 'SO- stop being evil'
    Commented Dec 22, 2010 at 19:52
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lsblk (List Block)

You can use lsblk command:

$ lsblk -o NAME,FSTYPE,LABEL,MOUNTPOINT,SIZE,MODEL

NAME        FSTYPE LABEL   MOUNTPOINT                      SIZE MODEL
...
nvme0n1                                                  119.2G TS128GMTE110S                           
├─nvme0n1p1 vfat           /boot/efi                       512M 
└─nvme0n1p2 ext4           /                             118.8G

Perfectly informed, my NVMe SSD is a Transced 110S 128GB (TS128GMTE110S)

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    +1 This provides nice output and does not require root access!
    – EM0
    Commented Feb 6, 2023 at 10:42
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    You can add the model name to the default output of lsblk with lsblk -o +model, that's even easier!
    – marcelm
    Commented Sep 4, 2023 at 17:12
  • This is a nice tip, and I almost updated the answer. But I realize that the default output also misses other fields and, for informational purposes, I suggest to leave the answer as it is.
    – Paulo Coghi
    Commented Sep 5, 2023 at 7:01
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try running smartctl -a /dev/hda (could be sda in your case; cat /proc/partitions will show you the device type to use)

In your case it's behind a cciss controller, so the option should be -d cciss,0 or similar.

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I know these answers are 3 years old, but for anyone looking around... In older versions you could find that under (? should be a number):

/sys/class/scsi_device/?:?:?:?/device/model

by doing this:

cat /sys/class/scsi_device/0\:0\:0\:0/device/{model,vendor}

(The backslashes next to zeros are for escaping special char :.)

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lsblk (List blocks) gives a list with device, size, type and mount_point

sudo lsblk 
NAME                   MAJ:MIN RM    SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda                      8:0    0  465.8G  0 disk 
└─sda1                   8:1    0  465.8G  0 part /data
sdb                      8:16   0    1.8T  0 disk 
├─sdb1                   8:17   0 1002.3G  0 part 
│ └─lvmvolumeSda6-home 254:0    0    2.8T  0 lvm  /home
└─sdb2                   8:18   0  860.7G  0 part 
sdc                      8:32   0  232.9G  0 disk 
└─sdc1                   8:33   0  232.9G  0 part 
sdd                      8:48   1    3.7T  0 disk 
└─sdd1                   8:49   1    3.7T  0 part /mnt/backups
sde                      8:64   1    1.8T  0 disk 
├─sde1                   8:65   1  864.5G  0 part 
│ └─lvmvolumeSda6-home 254:0    0    2.8T  0 lvm  /home
└─sde2                   8:66   1  998.6G  0 part 
  └─lvmvolumeSda6-home 254:0    0    2.8T  0 lvm  /home
sr0                     11:0    1   1024M  0 rom  
sr1                     11:1    1   1024M  0 rom  
nvme0n1                259:0    0  465.8G  0 disk 
├─nvme0n1p1            259:1    0  134.8G  0 part 
├─nvme0n1p2            259:2    0    1.9G  0 part /boot
├─nvme0n1p3            259:3    0      1K  0 part 
├─nvme0n1p4            259:4    0     87G  0 part /
├─nvme0n1p5            259:5    0     15G  0 part [SWAP]
└─nvme0n1p6            259:6    0  227.2G  0 part /data_nvme

lsblk -S gives model, vendor, etc...

sudo lsblk -S
NAME HCTL       TYPE VENDOR   MODEL             REV TRAN
sda  0:0:0:0    disk ATA      WDC WDS500G1B0A- 10WD sata
sdb  1:0:0:0    disk ATA      WDC WD20EFRX-68E 0A82 sata
sdc  5:0:0:0    disk ATA      Samsung SSD 850  1B6Q sata
sdd  10:0:0:0   disk ATA      WDC WD40EFRX-68W 0A82 sata
sde  11:1:0:0   disk ATA      WDC WD20EARS-00M AB51 sata
sr0  9:0:0:0    rom  ASUS     BC-12D2HT        1.00 sata
sr1  11:0:0:0   rom  TSSTcorp CDDVDW SH-222BB  SB00 sata
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gnome-disks

Either gnome-disks or just "Disks" on the Ubuntu 18.10 dash:

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This shows that I have a SAMSUNG MZVLB512HAJQ-000L7 in my Lenovo ThinkPad P51.

TODO why: for some reason, my SSD model was not showing clearly on either of:

sudo lshw -class disk
sudo hwinfo --disk

  • lshw did not how the SSD at all, only my hard disk

  • hwinfo did show both, but for the SSD said just:

    Model: "Samsung Electronics Disk"

    while for the HD it contains the actual model...

    Model: "ST1000LM035-1RK1"

This one from https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/5087/32558 worked though:

cat /sys/block/nvme0n1/device/model
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Try this command as root user.

hpacucli ctrl all show config detail
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    this is a command specific to hp raid controllers - so it is not useful here
    – geruetzel
    Commented Oct 27, 2016 at 15:28
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The lssd command can also help you.

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  • Can you provide some sample output or an explanation of where to find this tool? It's not available in my Fedora 20 system, for example.
    – slm ♦
    Commented Sep 9, 2014 at 2:09
  • @slm That is part of the fibreutils package that originates/d from HP.
    – Anthon
    Commented Sep 9, 2014 at 3:18
  • @Anthon - so then it's not a standard linux package?
    – slm ♦
    Commented Sep 9, 2014 at 3:25
  • @slm I'm pretty sure I have it from the RedHat machines I used to have access to. It is a bash script, but I haven't used it for many years. It calls scsi_info which I don't have on my Ubuntu system at all.
    – Anthon
    Commented Sep 9, 2014 at 3:32
  • @slm correction, I have the source for scsi_info, comes with the RPM. Just not compiled/installed.
    – Anthon
    Commented Sep 9, 2014 at 3:34

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