Does such a list exist? I've got a system that depends on the symlink in /dev/disk/by-id to identify which of the external drives at our datacenter contains the data that needs to be removed and shipped out after we export to the drive. This worked fabulously during in-house testing, but now that the system is in production we find that some Toshiba drives (at least) don't report a serial number to the OS that looks anything like what is printed on the outside of the drive itself. That complicates things. Is this dastardly behavior limited to Toshiba, or merely the specific model in question, or is it a known widespread problem for drives from any vendor (and is it at least guaranteed that certain models are safe)? Thanks, Ethan Baldridge -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-hotplug" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
