Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753693Ab2H3Q3c (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Aug 2012 12:29:32 -0400 Received: from mail.skyhub.de ([78.46.96.112]:50293 "EHLO mail.skyhub.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750961Ab2H3Q33 (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Aug 2012 12:29:29 -0400 Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2012 18:29:38 +0200 From: Borislav Petkov To: Jan Engelhardt Cc: Andy Lutomirski , Linux Kernel Mailing List , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, Bjoern Franke , Tim Nufire Subject: Re: Which disk is ata4? Message-ID: <20120830162938.GA24523@x1.osrc.amd.com> Mail-Followup-To: Borislav Petkov , Jan Engelhardt , Andy Lutomirski , Linux Kernel Mailing List , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, Bjoern Franke , Tim Nufire References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 678 Lines: 22 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? I'm thinking here of the DMI debacle of some vendors. Thanks. -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/