Bob Proulx wrote:
One simple question, though: if you have 2 similar HDDs and one of them starts to fail, how do you know which one it is?I assume you mean which physical disk is which? There are useful tools hdparm, smartctl, blkid, lsblk and probably others too. # hdparm -I /dev/sda ... Model Number: ST340014A Serial Number: 5JXC6GK4
Thanks, Bob. Still have to extract and disassemble the HDD caddy to check serial numbers, but knowing which drive to look for should seriously reduce downtimes. -- Best nightdreams. Serge Tiunov, "Do you really think you think http://e-head.net when you do think you do?"