On 10/10/2013 12:54 PM, Digimer wrote: >> Phil > > What if I don't have rock-solid knowledge? Is there a way to connect the > four drives and query them to determine which is which? I was using the > new system (minus the new drives) plus a spare new 500GB drive with the > fresh centos install to do the testing yesterday. I am pretty sure I can > redo the cabling to match, but I always prefer safe over sorry. :) Your mdadm -E reports clearly identified the order for the device names at that moment. You can replug drives and query them again if you like. Look for "Device Role :" in the output of "mdadm -E". The numbering starts with zero. > Thanks very much for your help so far! You are welcome. Phil -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
