sata and changing devices

[Alan Cox]

On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 04:24:01PM -0400, Gerry Reno wrote:
> The serial number might be ok until you replace the disk. Just have to 
> remember to rerun the tools for the replacement and to note the 
> replacement lineage. In scripts I think I could parse smartctl output 
> for serial numbers or is there something better under /proc I can parse?

hdparm is probably better to parse than hdparm. Especially

hdparm --Istdout