How to know what is the device corresponding to a certain external disk?

[Paul Smith]

On Sun, Jun 3, 2012 at 3:07 PM, Ian Chapman <packages at amiga-hardware.com> wrote:
>> How to know what is the device corresponding to a certain external
>> disk? I would like to format it and avoiding any undesirable
>> formatting of other disks.
>
> lsscsi is a handy alternative to running dmesg or checking
> /var/log/messages.
>
> You may have to:
>
> yum install lsscsi
>
> first

Thanks, Ian and Tom, for your help.

Paul