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From: David Greaves <david@dgreaves.com>
To: Tomasz Chmielewski <mangoo@wpkg.org>
Cc: Michael Harris <michael.harris@rmit.edu.au>, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: identifying failed disk/s in an array.
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 12:02:21 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <47972CCD.5010600@dgreaves.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4796E529.7030502@wpkg.org>

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

  reply	other threads:[~2008-01-23 12:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-23  5:05 identifying failed disk/s in an array Michael Harris
2008-01-23  6:56 ` Tomasz Chmielewski
2008-01-23 12:02   ` David Greaves [this message]
2008-01-23 14:00     ` Wolfgang Denk
2008-01-23 15:22 ` Nagilum

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