> On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 12:30 PM, Ethan <notet...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I have a failing drive, and no way to correlate the device with errors
>> in
>> the zpool status with an actual physical drive.
>> If I could get the device's serial number, I could use that as it's
>> printed
>> on the drive.
>> I come from linux, so I tried dmesg, as that's what's familiar (I see
>> that
>> the man page for dmesg on opensolaris says that I should be using
>> syslogd
>> but I haven't been able to figure out how to get the same output from
>> syslogd). But, while I see at the top the serial numbers for some other
>> drives, I don't see the one I want because it seems to be scrolled off
>> the
>> top.
>> Can anyone tell me how to get the serial number of my failing drive? Or
>> some other way to correlate the device with the physical drive?
>>
>> -Ethan
>>
>>
>>
> smartctl will do what you're looking for.  I'm not sure if it's included
> by
> default or not with the latest builds.  Here's the package if you need to
> build from source:
> http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/
>

You can find it at http://blastwave.network.com/csw/unstable/

Just install it with pkgadd or use pkgtrans to extract it and then run the
binary.


-- 
Dennis Clarke
dcla...@opensolaris.ca  <- Email related to the open source Solaris
dcla...@blastwave.org   <- Email related to open source for Solaris


_______________________________________________
zfs-discuss mailing list
zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org
http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Reply via email to