Hard drive weirdness.
David Vincent
dvincent at sleepdeprived.ca
Wed Jul 23 18:58:49 UTC 2008
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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.
the only time i can think of that this might change would be if the
master (currently /dev/sda) failed completely and when you booted the
computer it was completely unrecognizable to the BIOS/linux. at that
point because there would be only one /dev/sd* device detected your
slave might move to /dev/sda from /dev/sdb.
- -d
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