Re: [CentOS] mdadm and drive identification?

2011-09-20 Thread Joseph L. Casale
Is there another easy way I can positively ID a drive by serial number and the /dev/sd[a-z] that mdadm sees? I don't know of a tool like tune2fs or *fstune that works for mdraid. You might try on the mdadm list where Neil Brown hangs out... Given the wealth of easy ways to manage and monitor

Re: [CentOS] mdadm and drive identification?

2011-09-20 Thread Philip Pinto
Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2011 7:11 AM To: 'CentOS mailing list' Subject: Re: [CentOS] mdadm and drive identification? Is there another easy way I can positively ID a drive by serial number and the /dev/sd[a-z] that mdadm sees? I don't know of a tool like tune2fs or *fstune that works

Re: [CentOS] mdadm and drive identification?

2011-09-20 Thread Joseph L. Casale
You might want to try smartctl -a /dev/sda it would report something like this among other things Like the op said, it won't work through the hba. But Megacli will enumerate this with a -PDList. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

[CentOS] mdadm and drive identification?

2011-09-19 Thread David C. Miller
I have a server that has 16 drives in it. They are connected to a 3ware 9650SE-16ML SATA RAID card. I have the card set to export all the drives as JBOD because I prefer Linux to do the reporting of drive and RAID health . I'm using mdadm to create a RAID6 with a hot spare. Doing this I can