$ lsscsi --classic Attached devices: Host: scsi2 Channel: 00 Target: 00 Lun: 00 Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST34520N Rev: 1498 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 $ hdparm -g /dev/sdb: geometry = 1016/141/62, sectors = 8888924, start = 0 $ dd if=/dev/sdb of=perceptron.dd 8888924+0 records in 8888924+0 records out 4551129088 bytes (4.6 GB, 4.2 GiB) copied, 503.163 s, 9.0 MB/s