How to view information about all physical disks and drives connected to a linux box

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Issue sudo lshw -C disk   Which should show you something like this: *-cdrom description: DVD reader product: CDRW/DVD SM-352B vendor: SAMSUNG physical id: 0.0.0 bus info: scsi@5:0.0.0 logical name: /dev/cdrom logical name: /dev/dvd logical name: /dev/scd0 logical name: /dev/sr0 version: T806 capabilities: removable audio cd-r cd-rw dvd configuration: ansiversion=5 status=open *-disk description: ATA Disk product: WDC WD2500AAJS-5 vendor: Western Digital physical id: 0.0.0 bus info: scsi@3:0.0.0 logical name: /dev/sda version: 01.0 serial: WD-WCAT16458195 size: 232GiB (250GB) capabilities: partitioned partitioned:dos configuration: ansiversion=5 signature=000e9c26 *-disk description: SCSI Disk product: External HDD vendor: BUFFALO physical id: 0.0.0 bus info: scsi@0:0.0.0 logical name: /dev/sdb size: 465GiB (500GB) capabilities: partitioned partitioned:dos configuration: ansiversion=2 signature=bd4b0686 Comments Search Only registered users can write comments!

 

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