randall wrote:
dear all,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.thanks for reading this anyway.
Back in the day when I used to use software RAID, I'd write on the drive with sharpie or use a printed label somewhere obvious.
-- Seth Mattinen sethm@rollernet.us Roller Network LLC