Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:

Michael Harris schrieb:

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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 be:

dd if=/dev/drive of=/dev/null

Then look which LED is the one which blinks the most.

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)


David