Smartctl
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Sometimes you need information about the model or manufacturing numbers of drives that are in a running system. If the hard disk supports SMART (most do), you can use the smartctl utility (available from the sysutils/smartmontools port) to extract the model numbers. Running smartctl -i /dev/ad4 as root on my system gives output like this:
=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Device Model: WDC WD2500JB-00EVA0 Serial Number: WD-WCAEH1028140 Firmware Version: 15.05R15 Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show] ATA Version is: 6 ATA Standard is: Exact ATA specification draft version not indicated Local Time is: Thu Dec 22 10:48:33 2005 CST SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability. SMART support is: Enabled