From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bill Davidsen Subject: Re: Determining which spindle is out of order Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2010 13:17:33 -0400 Message-ID: <4CD1992D.3050008@tmr.com> References: <4CD17583.6070909@seoss.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Jon@eHardcastle.com Cc: Jon Hardcastle , Tim Small , Nat Makarevitch , linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids 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 "We can't solve today's problems by using the same thinking we used in creating them." - Einstein