Re: /dev/disk/by-id incomplete and unhelpful for SATA drives

[Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>]

On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 09:57:52PM +0000, Chris Paulson-Ellis wrote:
> Kay Sievers wrote:
> >On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 06:05:17PM +0000, Chris Paulson-Ellis wrote:
> >
> >>[snip]
> >>http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id\x109582
> >>
> >>I'm currently running udev-078 on vanilla 2.6.15-rc6
> >>[snip]
> >
> >Maxtor has a long history of doing broken serial numbers, they even
> >shipped disks with serials like: "M0000000000000000000". Regarding
> >this, the first suspect here is the disk itself.
> 
> I'm not suprised. I've also found Maxtor to be a manafacturer of poor 
> quality drives. I hope Seagate know what they're buying! This doesn't 
> explain why one of the drives is missing altogether from by-id, while 
> the other drive of the same model is present, albeit with a duff name.

Sure, both disks have the same "serial number", which will create the
same links, so the last one wins and replaces the links of the other
disk.

> >Are the examples with the sata/pata in the bug:
> >  /dev/disk
> >  |-- by-id
> >  |   |-- ata-Maxtor_4D080H4_D41S8XWE -> ../../hde
> >
> >
> >  /dev/disk
> >  |-- by-id
> >  |   |-- scsi-0ATA_Maxtor_6Y160M0_Linux_ATA-SCSI_simulator -> ../../sdb
> >
> >from the same disk model in a different box, or is it a different disk
> >model?
> 
> Different models (PATA/SATA). The drive models shown in the first part 
> of the by-id name are correct.

Ok.

> >What does:
> >  scsi_id -g -p0x80 -x -s /block/sda
> >  scsi_id -g -p0x83 -x -s /block/sda
> >print?
> 
> It looks like you're on to something (though I don't understand what); 
> The first command reveals the correct serial number...

These are the pages requested from the disk which contain all the
product information. It's defined by the SCSI standard.

> # scsi_id -g -p0x80 -x -s /block/sda
> ID_VENDOR=ATA
> ID_MODEL=Maxtor_6Y160M0
> ID_REVISION=YAR5
> ID_SERIAL=SATA_Maxtor_6Y160M0_Y4DCTR3E
> ID_TYPE=disk
> ID_BUS=scsi
> # scsi_id -g -p0x83 -x -s /block/sda
> ID_VENDOR=ATA
> ID_MODEL=Maxtor_6Y160M0
> ID_REVISION=YAR5
> ID_SERIAL
TA_Maxtor_6Y160M0_Linux_ATA-SCSI_simulator
> ID_TYPE=disk
> ID_BUS=scsi
> 
> 
> >Any chance to check the failing disk on an interface in pata mode, so
> >you get a hd* entry instead?
> 
> I thought the SATA as PATA driver had been replaced by libata? It may be 
> hard to change them anyway as they are in a pre-existing RAID array 
> which may not appreciate the change of naming! I'll give it a go if the 
> above is not sufficient.

No, the page 0x80 is fine, I hope. Try if putting:
  vendor="ATA",options=-p 0x80
in:
  /etc/scsi_id.config
helps.

Kay


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