Mitch,
Nifty Hat Mitch wrote:
On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 02:49:24PM +0100, Alexander Apprich wrote:
Phil Schaffner wrote:
On Mon, 2005-01-17 at 12:01 +0100, Alexander Apprich wrote:
Kam Leo wrote:
On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 10:01:16 +0100, Alexander Apprich
Roger Grosswiler wrote:
Alexander Apprich schrieb:
Roger Grosswiler wrote:
I would like to see all pci-slots on a system via shell, not only the used slots.
....
root@elmstreet / # dmidecode | grep PCI | wc -l 7
....
Well, Roger asked for number of PCI-Slots...
I am not sure that there is a way to do exactly what I think the OP is asking.
Well, as he didn't say anything it must be what he asked for :-)
In some MB the difference between 1, 2, 3 and 4 PCI slots is simply the presence of a connector. i.e. The chip set can support more than are wired on the PWB.
As I said, this is allways possible.
It is possible to count the bridge2pci interfaces but empty pci slots cannot be seen as far as I know (jtag?).
"Dmidecode reports information about your system's hardware as described in your system BIOS according to the SMBIOS/DMI standard (see a sample output). This information typically includes system manufacturer, model name, serial number, BIOS version, asset tag as well as a lot of other details of varying level of interest and reliability depending on the manufacturer. This will often include usage status for the CPU sockets, expansion slots (e.g. AGP, PCI, ISA) and memory module slots, and the list of I/O ports (e.g. serial, parallel, USB)."
Since dmidecode is getting info from the BIOS it is possible for the vendor to know what the build list for the MB is and return the right info, but as far as I know software cannot "see" empty slots.
Yep, it also possible that there is no info availible
apprich@sagnix apprich $ sudo /usr/local/bin/dmidecode SYSID present. RSD PTR found at 0xF6D60. OEM PTLTD PNP BIOS present. apprich@sagnix apprich $ cat /etc/issue | head -n 1 Red Hat Linux release 9 (Shrike)
Note also that many MBs have multiple PCI busses. Some are dedicated for resources on the MB. One or more will have connectors to plug stuff into.
I agree that it may no work in 100% of all cases, but most of the time it works :-)
apprich@c7po methods $ cat pci_slots #!/usr/local/bin/perl -w
use strict; use warnings;
my $dmi = "/usr/local/bin/dmidecode";
my $host = "$ENV{HOST}";
my $pcicount = 0;open IN, "$dmi|" or die "Cannot execute $dmi\n";
foreach my $key (<IN>) {
next if ! ( $key =~ m/^.*Type\: 32bit.*PCI.*$/i );
$pcicount++
}Found 6 PCI Slots on altels Found 6 PCI Slots on aragorn Found 6 PCI Slots on avalon Found 5 PCI Slots on beastie Found 6 PCI Slots on bellona Found 6 PCI Slots on bizkit Found 6 PCI Slots on blondel Found 6 PCI Slots on cantor Found 5 PCI Slots on deneb Found 6 PCI Slots on earth Found 5 PCI Slots on elise Found 6 PCI Slots on elmstreet Found 5 PCI Slots on gerda Found 7 PCI Slots on ginga Found 5 PCI Slots on hydra Found 5 PCI Slots on inti Found 5 PCI Slots on ivar Found 6 PCI Slots on kai Found 6 PCI Slots on legolas Found 6 PCI Slots on magellan Found 6 PCI Slots on marica Found 6 PCI Slots on nebula Found 6 PCI Slots on photonix Found 6 PCI Slots on sindibad Found 4 PCI Slots on terminalix Found 6 PCI Slots on titan Found 6 PCI Slots on titania Found 6 PCI Slots on vanquish Found 5 PCI Slots on wurzelausix
I checked them all and dmidecode was right in all cases.
Alex
