Peter Tribble wrote: > On 3/22/07, Sundar Yamunachari <Sundar.Yamunachari at sun.com> wrote: >> > Why is the type of disk and manufacturer important? >> We want to display that information to the user. The current installer >> just says c0d0, which is not that useful. > > In that case, adding the disk serial number (if available) would be > very useful. I will check whether we can get the serial number during installation. If we can get the serial number, we can add it to the disk information.
Thanks, Sundar > > I rebuilt a machine last week, and knew which disk was which > based on the serial number (Sun drives often have the serial number > visible). I had to boot it up into the installer and get an interactive > session so I could use iostat -En to work out which disk has > been allocated which address. > > In some cases, all the drives will be of identical make and type. > > Thanks, >
