Hard drive weirdness.

[David Vincent]

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Rashkae wrote:
> David Vincent wrote:
>> David Gibb wrote:
>>> Yeah, I know about
>>> sudo mdadm --detail /dev/md0
>>> but my problem is interpreting the results: if it tells me that
>>> /dev/sda has failed, then do I replace the top hard drive, or the
>>> bottom?
>> they are identical drives?  take a look at how you have them cabled.
>> /dev/sda would be the master and /dev/sdb would be the slave.
>>
> 
> Err, if I still remember this thread correctly, /dev/sda and sdb are
> SATA drives, no slave, no master. and indeed no way to predict which is
> which when Sh#t happens.

the motherboards i use have each sata channel labeled.  also the bios
should tell you which is "master" and which is "slave".

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