On Thu, 7 Oct 2004, Peter Eisch wrote: >In the Customization Guide there's an example for how to sniff out >drives on a system, but that's really only pertinent to IDE-interface >devices. Is there a similarly clever way to scan scsi controllers? This would work to populate the "hds" variable, but for SCSI drives: $ hds=`awk '{print $4}' < /proc/partitions |grep '^sd.[0-9]'` Cheers, Phil