On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 4:26 PM, Bryn M. Reeves <bmr@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 2009-10-14 at 15:52 +0100, Dan Track wrote: >> I've got two disks /dev/sda and /dev/sdb. I'd like to reload the >> driver that they are using. How can I find out what driver is being >> used by them? > > The sysfs file system (normally mounted at /sys) is your friend, e.g: > > $ ls -l /sys/block/sda/device/driver > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 2009-10-14 16:16 /sys/block/sda/device/driver > -> ../../../../../../bus/scsi/drivers/sd > > But this just tells us that it's being driven by the SCSI disk driver > (sd) which is kinda obvious. > > A lot more information is hidden away here however - you can use tools > like udevinfo or systool to trawl the file system and output the > information in a more readable format. > > To get all attributes for sda: > > $ udevinfo -ap /block/sda > > http://pastebin.com/m1fb2047d > > To get device attributes for all scsi disks on the system: > > $ systool -c scsi_disk -v > > http://pastebin.com/m263ebacc > > Regards, > Bryn. > Hi Bryn, Many thanks for this. Lot's to learn. Thanks Dan -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
