On 19/02/2011 11:52, Mathias Burén wrote: [...] > What I wonder is, how do I know what device is ata3? I do have 4 > devices of that model (WD20EARS). I've tried searching in /sys but > there's nothing of value there (or I've missed it). If dmesg only > showed the S/N... > I posted the smartctl --all output of all devices here in case someone > has time to take a look: > http://stuff.dyndns.org/logs/smart-sd[a,b,c,d,e,f,g].log Try using Phil Turmel's excellent lsdrv script; I've attached the version I use on EL5, but I hacked it about to work on such an old distro so I wouldn't swear it will work on more recent distros; Phil's original that does work on more recent distros can be found in the list archives around 6 November last year in the thread "Determining which spindle is out of order". Cheers, John.