Trying the locsmif method, querying /proc/scsi/scsi directly instead, a failure case was discovered there.

inxi

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 ########################################################################
 ####  Script Name: inxi
-####  version: 0.4.15
+####  version: 0.4.16
 ####  Date: November 8 2008
 ########################################################################
 ####  inxi is a fork of infobash, the original bash sys info script by locsmif
@@ -1242,6 +1242,7 @@ get_hard_drive_data_advanced()
 		IFS=$'\n'
 		## prints out hdd device if field one is ATA type (sata compatibility mode) or prints out scsi device
 		# note: pmap handles usb mounted devices, which have a null first field
+		if [[ $B_TESTING_FLAG == 'true' ]];then
 			a_temp_scsi=( $( gawk -F'\t' '
 			BEGIN { IGNORECASE=1 }
 			# if the item starts with empty, void field, assume it is flash drive
@@ -1251,6 +1252,33 @@ get_hard_drive_data_advanced()
 				print $(NF -1)
 			}
 			' /proc/scsi/sg/device_strs ) )
+		else
+			a_temp_scsi=( $( gawk  '
+			BEGIN { IGNORECASE=1 }
+			/host/ {
+				getline a[$0]
+				getline b[$0]
+			}
+			END {
+				for (i in a) {
+					if (b[i] ~ / *type: *direct-access.*/) {
+						#c=gensub(/^ *vendor: (.+) +model: (.+) +rev: (.+)$/,"\\1 \\2 \\3","g",a[i])
+						#c=gensub( /^ *vendor: (.+) +model: (.+) +rev:.*$/,"\\1 \\2","g",a[i] )
+						# the vendor: string is useless, and is a bug, ATA is not a vendor for example
+						c=gensub( /^ *vendor: (.+) +model: (.+) +rev:.*$/,"\\2","g",a[i] )
+						gsub(/,/, " ", c)
+						gsub(/^ +| +$/, "", c)
+						gsub(/ [ \t]+/, " ", c)
+						#print a[i]
+						# we actually want this data, so leaving this off for now
+# 						if (c ~ /\<flash\>|\<pendrive\>|memory stick|memory card/) {
+# 							continue
+# 						}
+						print c
+					}
+				}
+			}' /proc/scsi/scsi) )
+		fi
 		IFS="$ORIGINAL_IFS"
 	fi