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From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Subject: Re: Which disk is ata4?
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2012 18:29:38 +0200
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On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 06:14:46PM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> This tells me everything to replace a disk.
> 1. sdparm -C stop /dev/sdb
> 2. Removing Z1F0KR3H from the chassis.

Yep, the serial number is the best suggestion so far.

Are we sure this serial number is always programmed in by the hdd
vendors so that sdparm can read it out?

I'm thinking here of the DMI debacle of some vendors.

Thanks.

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Boris.