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From: Patrik Jonsson <patrik@ucolick.org>
To: "David M. Strang" <dstrang@shellpower.net>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Failed Hard Disk... help!
Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2006 16:44:22 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <448A07D6.70103@ucolick.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <002801c68c1d$905a6020$7e0c10ac@enterprise.local>

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David M. Strang wrote:
> What options do I have to retreive the serial number without driving out
> to the datacenter and looking at the drive? Do I need to be afraid of
> upgrading my kernel and mdadm and having my superblock go poof?

pretty sure "smartctl -d ata -a /dev/sdwhatever" will tell you the
serial number. (Hopefully the kernel is new enough that it supports
SATA/smart, otherwise you need a kernel patch which won't be any better...)

cheers,

/Patrik


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  reply	other threads:[~2006-06-09 23:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-06-09 23:36 Failed Hard Disk... help! David M. Strang
2006-06-09 23:44 ` Patrik Jonsson [this message]
2006-06-09 23:44   ` David M. Strang
2006-06-10  5:42     ` Luca Berra
2006-06-10 12:37     ` Ric Wheeler

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