How can I get Ubuntu to show the serial number of a drive?

Wiping hard drives (SATA and IDE) is part of my job. Most of the time we use DBAN (http://www.dban.org/). What's nice about DBAN 2.2.6 is that it lists the serial number of the drive(s) upon finishing whether successful or failed. This is necessary in my office, because every wipe must be confirmed and signed off on by a witness other than myself. They can check the serial number listed by DBAN against the one on the physical drive to acheive absolute assurance that the drive plugged in is the one that was just been wiped (or failed to wipe). Recently we've been exploring the idea of using either Knoppix or Ubuntu to wipe drives. I use "shred -vfz -n 7" to replicate DBAN's DOD standard wipe. What can I use in the Linux terminal to list the serial number of the drive that's just been wiped?