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Old 08-30-2011
find physical disk type : SAS / SATA

Hi,

Is there an easy way to find the disk-type from the command line or with another api ? sdparm works for SAS but not for SATA, hdparm works for SATA but not SAS.

Thanks
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Old 08-30-2011
It'd help to know what your system was.
 
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