Ok, I'm going to try and keep this short. I humbly ask for the wisdom of my brethren to help expound upon my limited knowledge. I have a situation where I'm pulling statistics off of some systems that will have anywhere from 4 to 16 drives (mirrored). These are proprietary systems that only allow telnet access so I'm using the Expect module for perl to interact with these things. One of the stats I'm collecting involves the number of drives and type of drive, through an elongated process I send a command to get the number of drives and here's a snippet of the output. 
voice_drives number:14
drive00 state: in_service
drive01 state: in_service ....

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I then send a "devstat vd0" and it returns 
DEVICE vd0 physunit         0x0
Inquiry: SEAGATE ST34573N ....

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and so on for each drive. I can easily grab the number of drives, status and the Make/Model, however here's my quandry. I would like to put this data along with other stats into a MySQL DB. How can I construct an insert statement (using the DBI) to insert 4 drives for one unit, 8 drives for another and 14 for yet another without hardcoding some sort of if..then..else conditional to control it? Any wisdom imparted would be greatly appreciated.

In reply to How many drives does it have? by TeKk9

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