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From: Tomasz Chmielewski <mangoo@wpkg.org>
To: lewis shobbrook <lewis@blue-matrix.org>
Cc: Linux-Raid <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Fwd: Identify SATA Disks
Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 18:19:47 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4655BB23.7000101@wpkg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8c4e120705231629q727718f2yb0704ff33b7012c@mail.gmail.com>

lewis shobbrook schrieb:
> Hi All,
> I'm wondering if anyone has discovered any nice tricks to assist in
> identification of hdd devices.
> I have an 8 bay hotswap array, pretty lights and have been wondering
> what others out there might be doing to determine which disk in an
> array is which.

Considering you can see HDD LEDs blinking, something like:

dd if=/dev/sdb of=/dev/null


should help you identify the disk :)


-- 
Tomasz Chmielewski
http://wpkg.org

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-05-24 16:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <8c4e120705230023v71a2ffa3p182f1e02ccb9cd54@mail.gmail.com>
2007-05-23 23:29 ` Fwd: Identify SATA Disks lewis shobbrook
2007-05-24 15:53   ` Colin McCabe
2007-05-24 16:06   ` Colin McCabe
2007-05-24 16:19   ` Tomasz Chmielewski [this message]
2007-05-24 21:00   ` Gabor Gombas

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