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Lähettäjä: Hendrik Boom
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Vastaanottaja: dng
Aihe: Re: [DNG] Identifying an installed physical hard drive without damage
On Sun, Aug 11, 2019 at 05:17:08PM -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote:
> On 8/11/19 3:10 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote:
>
> > On Sun, Aug 11, 2019 at 02:55:00PM +0200, Antony Stone wrote:
> > > On Sunday 11 August 2019 at 14:37:09, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> > >
> > > > I do not know which of the hard drives on my machine is /dev/sdb/
> > > ...
> > >
> > > > Or is there some completely different way of accomplishing what I want?
> > > # hdparm -i /dev/sdb
> > >
> > > It'll tell you the drive type and the serial number, which should also be
> > > printed on the drive label.
> > Yes, that will help! Thank you.
> >
> You could also execute a command that causes heavy load on /dev/sdb - be it
> a test, or a search - and then see which drive's lights flash a lot (if the
> drive has a light).


Good idea, but no light.

-- hendrik