Re: disk problems: which ATA?

[Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk>]

On Sun 03 Jul 2011 at 11:25:18 -0700, Ross Boylan wrote:

> How can I tell which ata device is which hard drive?  It's come up
> several times for me, most recently with
> ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen

For ata1.00 on this machine:

   ls -l /sys/class/scsi_disk/0:0:0:0/device/ | grep block:

> I'd also welcome advice about the disk problems, but I was hoping to
> raise the odds of an answer by keeping it simple :)

You thought devising an answer to your first question would be easy?
I've just spent the best part of two hours on it! No time now to sort
out your disk problem. :)