Hi Michelle, On Sat, Aug 02, 2008 at 06:24:24PM +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote: > Am 2008-07-29 20:10:19, schrieb Andy Smith: > > If the hardware has no means of identifying the disks (e.g. an > > indicator LED) then you could for example do a SMART query to find > > the serial number and physically label each disk with that. Then > > even if one dies to the extent that it won't respond to SMART, you > > can tell which it is without pulling disks out because you will know > > what all the *other* ones are. > > Ich you have the 6 drives in your box how do you know which has which > Serial number or such? "...and physically label each disk with that." :) > I have three Sun-Blade with each 160 SCSI drives in 10 cages and to of > the cages are a little bit different so I have to made labels and stick > them on the front of 128 drives and for the other 32 on the topbeginning > of the drive. Wow, that's a lot of work. I would really hope that anything which you can put 160 drives in would have the means to flash indicator lights.. Cheers, Andy -- http://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting Encrypted mail welcome - keyid 0x604DE5DB
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