There was a comment regarding the SGI "hinv" (hardware inventory) command and other UNIX systems. I've attached inline a "hinv" of my Onyx2 system. As you can see, it gives both hardware information as well as serial and part numbers of all boards in the system. In addition, I've also provided a "gfxinfo" command - which inventories and describes the graphics hardware on the system. There are other "info" commands which describe other system options - but I figured this would be enough to get the idea... ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- hinv -m IP31 Board: barcode MJT049 part 030-1523-001 rev C IP31PIMMR12KS Board: barcode MJS498 part 030-1423-002 rev H MODULEID Board: barcode K0010378 part rev IP31 Board: barcode LAM652 part 030-1523-001 rev C 4P1G5_MPLN Board: barcode DAW270 part 013-1839-001 rev E IP31PIMMR12KS Board: barcode LAT574 part 030-1423-002 rev G GE16-4 Board: barcode GMR170 part 030-1398-001 rev B DIVO Board: barcode DDE075 part 030-1046-002 rev H BASEIO Board: barcode GKN285 part 030-0734-002 rev N MIO Board: barcode GJJ660 part 030-0880-003 rev F 4 400 MHZ IP27 Processors CPU: MIPS R12000 Processor Chip Revision: 3.5 FPU: MIPS R12010 Floating Point Chip Revision: 3.5 Main memory size: 3072 Mbytes Instruction cache size: 32 Kbytes Data cache size: 32 Kbytes Secondary unified instruction/data cache size: 8 Mbytes Integral SCSI controller 0: Version QL1040B (rev. 2), single ended Disk drive: unit 1 on SCSI controller 0 Disk drive: unit 2 on SCSI controller 0 CDROM: unit 6 on SCSI controller 0 Integral SCSI controller 1: Version QL1040B (rev. 2), single ended IOC3 serial port: tty1 IOC3 serial port: tty2 IOC3 serial port: tty3 IOC3 serial port: tty4 IOC3 parallel port: plp1 Graphics board: InfiniteReality2E Integral Fast Ethernet: ef0, version 1, module 1, slot io1, pci 2 Iris Audio Processor: version RAD revision 7.0, number 1 Origin BASEIO board, module 1 slot 1: Revision 4 DIVO Video: controller 0 unit 0: Input, Output IOC3 external interrupts: 1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ /usr/gfx/gfxinfo -v Graphics board 0 is "KONAL" graphics. Managed (":0.0") 1280x1024 Display has 8 channels 4 GEs (of 4), occmask = 0x0f 4MB external BEF ram, 32bit path 2 RM9 boards (of 2) 1/1/0/0 Texture Memory: 64MB/64MB/-/- Large pixel depth 32K cmap, 64K external gamma brd: f61806 3020c06/3020c06/-/- 51bf1002 ge: 0 14832057 24731057 14231057 rm0: 15032057 15431057 4631057 2/2/2/2 4d31057 2/2/2/2/2/2/2/2 4938057 5/5/5/5/5/5/5/5/5/5/5/5/5/5/5/5/5/5/5/5 rm1: 15032057 15431057 4631057 2/2/2/2 4d31057 2/2/2/2/2/2/2/2 4938057 5/5/5/5/5/5/5/5/5/5/5/5/5/5/5/5/5/5/5/5 dg: 05532057 5838057 1/1/1/1 5631057 1/1/1/1/1/1/1/1 GE: NIC #: 0000.002a.e7eb (family: 0b) Serial #: GMR170 Part #: 030-1398-001 KT: No NIC serial number available. RM0: NIC #: 0000.0025.9d10 (family: 0b) Serial #: HGM627 Part #: 030-1402-001 TM0: NIC #: 0000.002e.44a7 (family: 0b) Serial #: FDS892 Part #: 030-1053-001 RM1: NIC #: 0000.0025.9be5 (family: 0b) Serial #: DEM993 Part #: 030-1402-001 TM1: NIC #: 0000.001d.b564 (family: 0b) Serial #: DEM879 Part #: 030-1053-001 RM2: No NIC serial number available. TM2: No NIC serial number available. RM3: No NIC serial number available. TM3: No NIC serial number available. BP: No NIC serial number available. DG: NIC #: 0000.0021.1bed (family: 0b) Serial #: GPV767 Part #: 030-1087-001 DGOPT:No NIC serial number available. Input Sync: Voltage - Video Level; Source - Internal; Genlocked - False Channel 0: Origin = (0,0) Video Output: 1280 pixels, 1024 lines, 72.00Hz (1280x1024_72.vfo) Video Format Flags: (none) Sync Output(s): Composite sync on Green Composite TTL sync on Aux 0 Using Gamma Map 0 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Lyle Bickley Bickley Consulting West Inc. Mountain View, CA http://bickleywest.com "Black holes are where God is dividing by zero"