I think he had DMESG in mind Regs, Andy Sanitized output from DMESG: Memory: 2058540k/2097088k available (2421k kernel code, 37684k reserved, 1309k d ata, 192k init) ....... CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3500+ stepping 02 ...... Linux version 2.6.15.2 (me@xxxxxxxxxx) (gcc version 4.0.2 20051125 (Red Hat 4.0.2-8)) #1 Fri Feb 3 10:50:41 GMT 2006 ...... ata1: dev 0 cfg 49:2f00 82:346b 83:7d01 84:4023 85:3468 86:3c01 87:4023 88:207f ata1: dev 0 ATA-7, max UDMA/133, 488397168 sectors: LBA48 ata1: dev 0 configured for UDMA/100 scsi0 : sata_sil ata2: dev 0 cfg 49:2f00 82:346b 83:7d01 84:4023 85:3468 86:3c01 87:4023 88:207f ata2: dev 0 ATA-7, max UDMA/133, 488397168 sectors: LBA48 ata2: dev 0 configured for UDMA/100 scsi1 : sata_sil ata3: dev 0 cfg 49:2f00 82:346b 83:7d01 84:4023 85:3468 86:3c01 87:4023 88:207f ata3: dev 0 ATA-7, max UDMA/133, 488397168 sectors: LBA48 ata3: dev 0 configured for UDMA/100 scsi2 : sata_sil ata4: dev 0 cfg 49:2f00 82:346b 83:7d01 84:4023 85:3468 86:3c01 87:4023 88:207f ata4: dev 0 ATA-7, max UDMA/133, 488397168 sectors: LBA48 ata4: dev 0 configured for UDMA/100 scsi3 : sata_sil Vendor: ATA Model: ST3250823AS Rev: 3.02 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05 SCSI device sda: 488397168 512-byte hdwr sectors (250059 MB) SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back SCSI device sda: 488397168 512-byte hdwr sectors (250059 MB) SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back sda: sda1 sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sda Vendor: ATA Model: ST3250823AS Rev: 3.02 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05 SCSI device sdb: 488397168 512-byte hdwr sectors (250059 MB) SCSI device sdb: drive cache: write back SCSI device sdb: 488397168 512-byte hdwr sectors (250059 MB) SCSI device sdb: drive cache: write back sdb: sdb1 sd 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sdb Vendor: ATA Model: ST3250823AS Rev: 3.02 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05 SCSI device sdc: 488397168 512-byte hdwr sectors (250059 MB) SCSI device sdc: drive cache: write back SCSI device sdc: 488397168 512-byte hdwr sectors (250059 MB) SCSI device sdc: drive cache: write back sdc: sdc1 sd 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sdc Vendor: ATA Model: ST3250823AS Rev: 3.02 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05 SCSI device sdd: 488397168 512-byte hdwr sectors (250059 MB) SCSI device sdd: drive cache: write back SCSI device sdd: 488397168 512-byte hdwr sectors (250059 MB) SCSI device sdd: drive cache: write back sdd: sdd1 sd 3:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sdd sata_nv 0000:00:07.0: version 0.8 ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APSI] enabled at IRQ 23 GSI 17 sharing vector 0xE1 and IRQ 17 ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:07.0[A] -> Link [APSI] -> GSI 23 (level, low) -> IRQ 225 PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:07.0 to 64 ata5: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x9F0 ctl 0xBF2 bmdma 0xCC00 irq 225 ata6: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x970 ctl 0xB72 bmdma 0xCC08 irq 225 ata5: dev 0 cfg 49:2f00 82:346b 83:7f61 84:4003 85:3469 86:3c41 87:4003 88:407f ata5: dev 0 ATA-6, max UDMA/133, 488397168 sectors: LBA48 nv_sata: Primary device added nv_sata: Primary device removed nv_sata: Secondary device added nv_sata: Secondary device removed ata5: dev 0 configured for UDMA/133 scsi4 : sata_nv ata6: no device found (phy stat 00000000) scsi5 : sata_nv Vendor: ATA Model: WDC WD2500JD-00H Rev: 08.0 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05 SCSI device sde: 488397168 512-byte hdwr sectors (250059 MB) SCSI device sde: drive cache: write back SCSI device sde: 488397168 512-byte hdwr sectors (250059 MB) SCSI device sde: drive cache: write back sde:<4>nv_sata: Primary device added nv_sata: Primary device removed nv_sata: Secondary device added nv_sata: Secondary device removed sde1 sd 4:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sde ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APSJ] enabled at IRQ 22 GSI 18 sharing vector 0xE9 and IRQ 18 ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:08.0[A] -> Link [APSJ] -> GSI 22 (level, low) -> IRQ 233 PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:08.0 to 64 ata7: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x9E0 ctl 0xBE2 bmdma 0xE000 irq 233 ata8: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x960 ctl 0xB62 bmdma 0xE008 irq 233 ata7: dev 0 cfg 49:2f00 82:7c6b 83:7f09 84:4673 85:7c69 86:3e01 87:4663 88:407f ata7: dev 0 ATA-7, max UDMA/133, 490234752 sectors: LBA48 nv_sata: Primary device added nv_sata: Primary device removed nv_sata: Secondary device added nv_sata: Secondary device removed ata7: dev 0 configured for UDMA/133 scsi6 : sata_nv ata8: dev 0 cfg 49:2f00 82:346b 83:7f01 84:4003 85:3c69 86:3c01 87:4003 88:40ff ata8: dev 0 ATA-7, max UDMA7, 312581808 sectors: LBA48 nv_sata: Primary device added nv_sata: Primary device removed nv_sata: Secondary device added nv_sata: Secondary device removed ata8: dev 0 configured for UDMA/133 scsi7 : sata_nv Vendor: ATA Model: Maxtor 6L250S0 Rev: BANC Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05 SCSI device sdf: 490234752 512-byte hdwr sectors (251000 MB) SCSI device sdf: drive cache: write back SCSI device sdf: 490234752 512-byte hdwr sectors (251000 MB) SCSI device sdf: drive cache: write back sdf:<4>nv_sata: Primary device added nv_sata: Primary device removed nv_sata: Secondary device added nv_sata: Secondary device removed sdf1 sd 6:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sdf Vendor: ATA Model: SAMSUNG SP1614C Rev: SW10 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05 SCSI device sdg: 312581808 512-byte hdwr sectors (160042 MB) SCSI device sdg: drive cache: write back SCSI device sdg: 312581808 512-byte hdwr sectors (160042 MB) SCSI device sdg: drive cache: write back sdg:<4>nv_sata: Primary device added nv_sata: Primary device removed nv_sata: Secondary device added nv_sata: Secondary device removed sdg1 sdg2 On 2/5/06, Peter Arremann <loony@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >On 2/5/06, micheal <sundance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > >Well, either > > > > > >1) The interviewee misunderstood the question > > >2) The interviewer is totally clueless > Either that - or its a trick question... /proc/kcore - anything that's in the > kernel is in memory - /proc/kcore represents your memory :-) /dev/mem should > work too... > > Peter. > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list >