Eugeneapolinary Ju wrote: > How can I tell wich HDD to swap, when the "cat /proc/mdstat" says one > HDD of the RAID1 array has died? > > Does the HDD's has some serial numbers, that I can see in "reality", > and I can get that number from e.g.: a commands output? > > How could I know wich HDD to swap in e.g.: a RAID1 array? > for devices that show up as /dev/hdX, try # hdparm -i /dev/hda for devices that show up as /dev/sdX, # cat /proc/scsi/scsi this last won't show serial numbers, however it will list drive models and SCSI channel/id/lun, which should narrow it down. the first SCSI device listed thats 'Direct-Access' (as opposed to Processor, or something else) is /dev/sda, the 2nd is /dev/sdb