On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 08:32:48PM +0200, randall wrote:
a silly question here, but i'm just going through the disaster
recovery procedure....and what to do in case of harddisk failure.
i have a nice raid setup, and its no problem to recognize which
/dev/sdX has dropped out of the array, but how do you physically
identify for example /dev/sdf when opening the box and have 6 disks
to choose from?
i can't be the first with this question so i just wonder what "rules
of thumb" others use.
Look at the SCSI ID selection jumpers on the drives. The lowest ID
(which may be 0, but isn't necessarily) is /dev/sda, the next in
sequence is /dev/sdb...
With more than one SCSI bus the lettering goes through all the drives
on the first bus before it starts on the second, etc.