Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754123Ab2H3Qfg (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Aug 2012 12:35:36 -0400 Received: from lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk ([81.2.110.251]:38210 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753444Ab2H3Qfd (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Aug 2012 12:35:33 -0400 Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2012 17:39:56 +0100 From: Alan Cox To: Borislav Petkov Cc: Jan Engelhardt , Andy Lutomirski , Linux Kernel Mailing List , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, Bjoern Franke , Tim Nufire Subject: Re: Which disk is ata4? Message-ID: <20120830173956.3a29d511@pyramind.ukuu.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <20120830162938.GA24523@x1.osrc.amd.com> References: <20120830162938.GA24523@x1.osrc.amd.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.8.0 (GTK+ 2.24.8; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwBAMAAAClLOS0AAAAFVBMVEWysKsSBQMIAwIZCwj///8wIhxoRDXH9QHCAAABeUlEQVQ4jaXTvW7DIBAAYCQTzz2hdq+rdg494ZmBeE5KYHZjm/d/hJ6NfzBJpp5kRb5PHJwvMPMk2L9As5Y9AmYRBL+HAyJKeOU5aHRhsAAvORQ+UEgAvgddj/lwAXndw2laEDqA4x6KEBhjYRCg9tBFCOuJFxg2OKegbWjbsRTk8PPhKPD7HcRxB7cqhgBRp9Dcqs+B8v4CQvFdqeot3Kov6hBUn0AJitrzY+sgUuiA8i0r7+B3AfqKcN6t8M6HtqQ+AOoELCikgQSbgabKaJW3kn5lBs47JSGDhhLKDUh1UMipwwinMYPTBuIBjEclSaGZUk9hDlTb5sUTYN2SFFQuPe4Gox1X0FZOufjgBiV1Vls7b+GvK3SU4wfmcGo9rPPQzgIabfj4TYQo15k3bTHX9RIw/kniir5YbtJF4jkFG+dsDK1IgE413zAthU/vR2HVMmFUPIHTvF6jWCpFaGw/A3qWgnbxpSm9MSmY5b3pM1gvNc/gQfwBsGwF0VCtxZgAAAAASUVORK5CYII= Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1077 Lines: 27 On Thu, 30 Aug 2012 18:29:38 +0200 Borislav Petkov 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-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/