Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: > Michael Harris schrieb: >> i have a disk fail say HDC for example, i wont know which disk HDC is >> as it could be any of the 5 disks in the PC. Is there anyway to make >> it easier to identify which disk is which?. > > If the drives have any LEDs, the most reliable way would be: > > dd if=/dev/drive of=/dev/null > > Then look which LED is the one which blinks the most.
And/or use smartctl to look up the make/model/serial number and look at the drive label. I always do this to make sure I'm pulling the right drive (also useful to RMA the drive) David - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
