Identifying Disk Type

Usage and Config
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(imported topic written by SystemAdmin)

Hello everyone,

Does anyone know how to identify the hard disk type, such as IDE, SATA or SCSI of a hard disk via BigFix?

I could not find this information on WMI in order to create a specific analysis.

Thank you and best regards,

Ricardo

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(imported comment written by NoahSalzman)

Do you have the “Hardware Information (Windows)” analysis turned on? It’s part of the “BES Inventory and License” site.

It uses the query:

if (exists wmi) then (string values of selects “Caption from Win32_DiskDrive” of wmi ) else (“N/A”)

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(imported comment written by Lee Wei)

InterfaceType attribute from Win32_DiskDrive seems like it should do the job.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa394132(v=VS.85).aspx

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(imported comment written by SystemAdmin)

Hello Noah and Lee, thanks for your responses.

The existing query on Hardware Information (Windows) Analysis returns (in my case) the Manufacturer and model of the drive but not the type of drive. I can tell the type of the drive based on the model in my case but this is not what the customer is looking for because not all models will have this information available.

The InterfaceType on Win32_DiskDrive WMI class returns IDE for both IDE and SATA disks so it does not work either for this purpose.

Thank you and best regards,

Ricardo

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(imported comment written by NoahSalzman)

A quick google search of “wmi ide sata” turns up this:

Which leads us to:

string values of selects “* from win32_scsicontroller” of wmi

and

string values of selects “* from win32_idecontroller” of wmi

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(imported comment written by SystemAdmin)

Does this mean a IBM update to the Hardware Information analysis is in the works… :slight_smile:

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(imported comment written by NoahSalzman)

It’s now bug (feature request) #40904.