Re: Which disk is failing?

[Gregory Seidman <gsslist+debian@anthropohedron.net>]

On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 03:27:50PM +0200, randall wrote:
> On 07/22/2010 02:54 PM, Michal wrote:
>> On 22/07/10 12:38, Gregory Seidman wrote:
[...]
>>> So, um, help?
>>>
>>> --Greg
>>>
>> cat /proc/mdstat can help but you need to get the serial numbers. Do  
>> this;
>>
>> ~# hdparm -i /dev/sda
[...]

# hdparm -i /dev/sda
 HDIO_GET_IDENTITY failed: Invalid argument

/dev/sda:

# hdparm -i /dev/sdb
 HDIO_GET_IDENTITY failed: Invalid argument

/dev/sdb:

> you could also try smartctl -a /dev/sda to get the disks serial numbers

# smartctl -a /dev/sda
smartctl version 5.38 [i686-pc-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-8 Bruce Allen
Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/

Device: ST332062 0A               Version: 3.AA
scsiModePageOffset: response length too short, resp_len=4 offset=4 bd_len=0
>> Terminate command early due to bad response to IEC mode page
A mandatory SMART command failed: exiting. To continue, add one or more '-T permissive' options.

# smartctl -a /dev/sda -T permissive
smartctl version 5.38 [i686-pc-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-8 Bruce Allen
Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/

Device: ST332062 0A               Version: 3.AA
scsiModePageOffset: response length too short, resp_len=4 offset=4 bd_len=0
>> Terminate command early due to bad response to IEC mode page

Error Counter logging not supported
scsiModePageOffset: response length too short, resp_len=4 offset=4 bd_len=0
Device does not support Self Test logging


Neither of these tools seem to be of much use here.

--Greg