From: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
To: Jon@eHardcastle.com
Cc: Jon Hardcastle <jonathan.hardcastle@gmail.com>,
Tim Small <tim@seoss.co.uk>,
Nat Makarevitch <Shelso@makarevitch.org>,
linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Determining which spindle is out of order
Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2010 13:17:33 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CD1992D.3050008@tmr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTim7F+JVDb008XkcH0+4t+vzivV6CprejAQp5xa1@mail.gmail.com>
Jon Hardcastle wrote:
> I use something like this.. when i commission a drive I allocate it a
> unique number like J70 and I then have a spreadsheet that marrys this
> up with the serial number of the device.
>
> hdparm etc gives me the serial number, and the lookup identifies the device.
>
> Oh and i write the J70 on little green sticky labels that I then stick
> on all 4 edges of the drive...
>
When I ran servers for an ISP we had a utility which blinked the light
on the drive (assumes it hasn't gone utterly belly up, of course).
--
Bill Davidsen<davidsen@tmr.com>
"We can't solve today's problems by using the same thinking we
used in creating them." - Einstein
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-11-03 17:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-11-03 14:13 Determining which spindle is out of order Nat Makarevitch
2010-11-03 14:38 ` Roman Mamedov
2010-11-03 15:17 ` Graham Mitchell
2010-11-03 16:05 ` Roman Mamedov
2010-11-03 19:00 ` Jon Hardcastle
2010-11-03 14:43 ` John Robinson
2010-11-03 14:45 ` Tim Small
2010-11-03 15:59 ` Jon Hardcastle
2010-11-03 17:17 ` Bill Davidsen [this message]
2010-11-03 20:03 ` Tim Small
2010-11-03 15:29 ` Mikael Abrahamsson
2010-11-03 21:54 ` Phil Turmel
2010-11-03 22:26 ` Roman Mamedov
2010-11-04 9:29 ` Tom Carlson
2010-11-06 10:22 ` Leslie Rhorer
2010-11-06 15:12 ` Phil Turmel
[not found] ` <4CD57867.4010207@anonymous.org.uk>
2010-11-06 16:02 ` Phil Turmel
2010-11-06 16:11 ` Mathias Burén
2010-11-06 16:45 ` Jan Ceuleers
2010-11-06 19:39 ` Phil Turmel
2010-11-06 20:16 ` Leslie Rhorer
2010-11-06 20:23 ` Mr. James W. Laferriere
2010-11-07 7:51 ` Jan Ceuleers
2010-11-07 12:53 ` John Robinson
2010-11-07 13:21 ` Phil Turmel
2010-11-07 13:43 ` John Robinson
2010-11-07 14:43 ` Phil Turmel
2010-11-07 15:04 ` Mathias Burén
2010-11-07 15:19 ` John Robinson
2010-11-07 18:39 ` Phil Turmel
2010-11-07 20:46 ` Leslie Rhorer
2010-11-07 21:22 ` John Robinson
2010-11-08 18:59 ` John Robinson
2010-11-07 21:24 ` Andreas Dröscher
2010-11-08 21:05 ` Mr. James W. Laferriere
2010-11-07 20:52 ` Roman Mamedov
2010-11-09 14:40 ` Phil Turmel
2010-11-06 19:58 ` Leslie Rhorer
2010-11-06 21:17 ` John Robinson
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