From: Phil Turmel <philip@turmel.org>
To: Digimer <lists@alteeve.ca>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Broken array, trying to assemble enough to copy data off
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2013 13:58:15 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5256EAB7.9000500@turmel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5256DBD4.4030906@alteeve.ca>
On 10/10/2013 12:54 PM, Digimer wrote:
>> Phil
>
> What if I don't have rock-solid knowledge? Is there a way to connect the
> four drives and query them to determine which is which? I was using the
> new system (minus the new drives) plus a spare new 500GB drive with the
> fresh centos install to do the testing yesterday. I am pretty sure I can
> redo the cabling to match, but I always prefer safe over sorry. :)
Your mdadm -E reports clearly identified the order for the device names
at that moment. You can replug drives and query them again if you like.
Look for "Device Role :" in the output of "mdadm -E". The numbering
starts with zero.
> Thanks very much for your help so far!
You are welcome.
Phil
prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-10-10 17:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-10-09 23:25 Broken array, trying to assemble enough to copy data off Digimer
2013-10-09 23:41 ` Digimer
2013-10-10 12:44 ` Phil Turmel
2013-10-10 16:20 ` Digimer
2013-10-10 16:36 ` Phil Turmel
2013-10-10 16:54 ` Digimer
2013-10-10 17:58 ` Phil Turmel [this message]
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