From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Tomasz Chmielewski <mangoo@wpkg.org>
Subject: Re: Fwd: Identify SATA Disks
Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 18:19:47 +0200
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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 :)


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Tomasz Chmielewski
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