On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 10:39 PM, John Huttley <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi again, > My foray into tape rules has come to an abrupt halt. > I'm sure scsi_id is more confused that I am. > > I'm running it against a scsi attached HP Ultrium-1 drive > > gatekeeper by-id # scsi_id --whitelisted --export -d /dev/st2 > ID_VENDOR=HP > ID_MODEL=C7438A > ID_REVISION=ZU5A > ID_SERIAL=1HP_C7438A_HU107108XD > ID_SERIAL_SHORT=HP_C7438A_HU107108XD > ID_TYPE=tape > > > tapeinfo says > > gatekeeper by-id # tapeinfo -f /dev/sg1 > Product Type: Tape Drive > Vendor ID: 'HP ' > Product ID: 'Ultrium 1-SCSI ' > Revision: 'N27D' > Attached Changer: No > SerialNumber: 'HU84H06998' > MinBlock:1 > MaxBlock:16777215 > SCSI ID: 1 > SCSI LUN: 0 > Ready: no > > scsi_id is really mangling that serial number!! (short and long) It's that way since forever. It ensures unique serial numbers, which is not given across vendors. Thanks, Kay -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-hotplug" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
