Comment 0 for bug 663349

Binary package hint: lshw

When getting firmware version information about a hard disk, the following command reports incomplete information:

sudo lshw -C disk

Here is example output:

  *-disk
       description: ATA Disk
       product: INTEL SSDSA2M040
       physical id: 0.0.0
       bus info: scsi@2:0.0.0
       logical name: /dev/sda
       version: 2CV1
       serial: CVGB036100TS040NGN
       size: 37GiB (40GB)
       capabilities: partitioned partitioned:dos
       configuration: ansiversion=5 signature=000daa5d

In the above output, "version: 2CV1" should have been "2CV102DH". In another system with a standard SATA disk (non-SSD), the version was also truncated by 4 characters.

Palimpsest (under (System > Administration > Disk Utility) reports the right information. See attached screenshot.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: lshw 02.14-1build1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.34-generic 2.6.35.4
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Oct 19 11:38:31 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: lshw