Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> I have some spurious timeouts (but without md kicking the drive) on an
> WD20EADS. I believe this drive is actually defective and would like to swap
> it.
>
> Looking at dmesg etc, I don't see an exact mapping between /dev/sdX and the
> ataXX.YY semantics. I can guess with high probability which drive this is, but
> I don't know for sure and I don't want to fail the wrong drive.
>
> Anybody know a sure way to find this mapping out? Been looking in /sys etc,
> but no go so far...
No. OTOH, the poor sysadmins version of the "disk identification light" is:
sudo dd if=/dev/sdFAIL of=/dev/null
...plus a pair of eyes. FWIW.
Daniel
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