Re: identifying failed disk/s in an array.

2008-01-23 Thread David Greaves
Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: Michael Harris schrieb: i have a disk fail say HDC for example, i wont know which disk HDC is as it could be any of the 5 disks in the PC. Is there anyway to make it easier to identify which disk is which?. If the drives have any LEDs, the most reliable way would

Re: identifying failed disk/s in an array.

2008-01-23 Thread Wolfgang Denk
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: And/or use smartctl to look up the make/model/serial number and look at the drive label. I always do this to make sure I'm pulling the right drive (also useful to RMA the drive) Or, probblay even faster, do a ls -l /dev/disk/by-id (assuming you are

Re: identifying failed disk/s in an array.

2008-01-23 Thread Nagilum
- Message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 16:05:40 +1100 From: Michael Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Michael Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: identifying failed disk/s in an array. To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org Hi, I have just built a Raid 5

identifying failed disk/s in an array.

2008-01-22 Thread Michael Harris
Hi, I have just built a Raid 5 array using mdadm and while it is running fine I have a question, about identifying the order of disks in the array. In the pre sata days you would connect your drives as follows: Primary Master - HDA Primary Slave - HDB Secondary - Master - HDC Secondary -

Re: identifying failed disk/s in an array.

2008-01-22 Thread Tomasz Chmielewski
Michael Harris schrieb: Hi, I have just built a Raid 5 array using mdadm and while it is running fine I have a question, about identifying the order of disks in the array. In the pre sata days you would connect your drives as follows: Primary Master - HDA Primary Slave - HDB Secondary -