[dba-Tech] Determine the hard drive type without opening the box

SIW and RAID - I have two RAID controllers in PCI slots;  one is labelled
'SCSI', the other 'IDE'.  Both are running only SATA drives.  No actual
drive information is available.  Otherwise SIW looks interesting and useful.

HD Tune 2.55, on the other hand, seized up my PC completely - two minutes
per mouse movement, before I finally got it to reboot.  After reboot, with
nothing else running, it failed to do anything, permanently showing either
hourglass or 'not responding', yet still succeeding in slugging my PC if I
tried to do something useful like use Task Manager (to throw it off).
Clearly cr*p software, now uninstalled and never to be tried again!!
Actually it did do just one useful thing: uninstall.

John

-----Original Message-----
From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Don Bozarth
Sent: 17 June 2008 22:35
To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Determine the hard drive type without opening the
box


Neither HDTune nor SIW will always properly identify the drive. 
Particularly in RAID configurations, where a SATA drive may be reported as 
IDE.

Don B.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Patten" <bill_patten at embarqmail.com>
To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues" 
<dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2008 1:47 PM
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Determine the hard drive type without opening the 
box


> Arthur,
>
> Just a quick update on SIW, I just upgraded to the latest version and 
> I no longer get the DLL error in Vista...
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Arthur Fuller" <fuller.artful at gmail.com>
> To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues" 
> <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2008 11:41 AM
> Subject: [dba-Tech] Determine the hard drive type without opening the 
> box
>
>
> A while back I started a thread about determining the CPU type without 
> opening the box, and received several good answers. Now I'm wondering 
> whether I can determine the type of hard drive(s) installed -- maker, 
> size, rpm, IDE or SCSI or SATA, etc.
>
> Anyone know?
>
> TIA,
> Arthur
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