Re: Failed Hard Disk... help!

2006-06-10 Thread Ric Wheeler
David M. Strang wrote: /Patrick wrote: pretty sure smartctl -d ata -a /dev/sdwhatever will tell you the serial number. (Hopefully the kernel is new enough that it supports SATA/smart, otherwise you need a kernel patch which won't be any better...) Yep... 2.6.15 or better... I need the

Failed Hard Disk... help!

2006-06-09 Thread David M. Strang
Hello all... I'm looking for a suggestion or two... I have a server running with 2 Western Digital WD4000YR drives running a RAID1 mirror... the other day, I was lucky enough to have one of the drives fail. Being as they are new(er) drives, they are still under warrenty, and I'm looking to do

Re: Failed Hard Disk... help!

2006-06-09 Thread David M. Strang
/Patrick wrote: pretty sure smartctl -d ata -a /dev/sdwhatever will tell you the serial number. (Hopefully the kernel is new enough that it supports SATA/smart, otherwise you need a kernel patch which won't be any better...) Yep... 2.6.15 or better... I need the magical patch =\. Any other

Re: Failed Hard Disk... help!

2006-06-09 Thread Luca Berra
On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 07:44:40PM -0400, David M. Strang wrote: /Patrick wrote: pretty sure smartctl -d ata -a /dev/sdwhatever will tell you the serial number. (Hopefully the kernel is new enough that it supports SATA/smart, otherwise you need a kernel patch which won't be any better...)