On Thu, 30 Aug 2012 18:29:38 +0200 Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 06:14:46PM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > This tells me everything to replace a disk. > > 1. sdparm -C stop /dev/sdb > > 2. Removing Z1F0KR3H from the chassis. > > Yep, the serial number is the best suggestion so far. > > Are we sure this serial number is always programmed in by the hdd > vendors so that sdparm can read it out? With three known exceptions - fake ones generated by some IT821X adapters in RAID mode - certain old Maxtor PATA drives had a peculiar firmware failure where they changed to some kind of default serial number. Very unusual. Was never really fully explained and seems to have been very rare. - drives so ancient they don't support IDENTIFY, and we don't support them in libata anyway ! Alan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
