On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 3:38 AM, Alex Schuster <wo...@wonkology.org> wrote: > Alex Schuster writes: > >> Canek Peláez Valdés writes: > >> > $ ll /dev/disk/by-id >> > ... >> > ata-SAMSUNG_HD160JJ_S08HJ10YC13279 -> ../../sda >> > ... >> > >> > That's a whole drive right there. >> >> Wow, now I feel really stupid :) You are so right, they are there, and I >> don't why I overlooked them... too many entries there maybe, I have 140. >> But still. Stuuupid! > > I looked again in the terminal at what I did this night, and at least > feel a little less stupid now. I had searched for my /dev/sdd drive, and > this one just has no label. Only its partitions do, they appear twice, as > ata-SAMSUNG_SP1614N_0735J1FW815459-part[15678] and > wwn-0x50f0000000000000-part[15678]. > > This drive is an older PATA drive, maybe that's the difference? > > Wonko >
Check out the very nice 'lsdrv' script by Phil Turmel. Run it, save a copy of the output for bad times. https://github.com/pturmel/lsdrv HTH, Mark
