--- On Wed, 27/1/10, Rick Bragg <lists@gmnet.net> wrote:

From: Rick Bragg <redacted>
Subject: How can I tell what drive is sdb?
To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Date: Wednesday, 27 January, 2010, 14:03
Hi,

I have a system with raid10 running Ubuntu 8.10.  It
uses a
"promise"card

# lsusb
..
01:02.0 Mass storage controller: Promise Technology, Inc.
PDC40718 (SATA
300 TX4) (rev 02)
..

I have 4 identical disks on it and they show up as
/dev/sda, b, c, and
d.

However, sdb needs to be replaced.  How can I tell
which drive is sdb?
Is there a way to identify what drive is what?

Thanks
Rick

I had this problem, and and as it is a mare removing the drives to identify what one is what.. When i needed to reorganise my physical drive order i took the liberty of writing on the sides/back of each drive a short incrementing ID that tallys to a spreadsheet of serial numbers that i gleaned from smartctl.


      
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