On 1/15/24 17:31, gene heskett wrote:
On 1/15/24 19:11, David Christensen wrote:
On 1/15/24 16:03, gene heskett wrote:
On 1/15/24 18:41, gene heskett wrote:
On 1/15/24 17:58, gene heskett wrote:
On 1/15/24 14:55, David Wright wrote:
On Mon 15 Jan 2024 at 08:39:37 (-0500), gene heskett wrote:
ata-Gigastone_SSD_GST02TBG221146
ata-Gigastone_SSD_GSTD02TB230102
ata-Gigastone_SSD_GSTG02TB230206
these devices appear to have normal serial numbers. Do they bear
any other indication, like engravings or stickers? If not, I would,
in turn, plug each one in, read the serial number from its symlink,
and write on it with a marker. While doing that, you could also
run smartctl.
There is a sticker on the bottom containing the numbers you see
above, and a (upc?) bar code I don't have a reader for.
So, two stickers have one number, two stickers have another number,
and one sticker has a third number? Or, three stickers have one
number, one sticker has another number, and the last stick has a third
number?
5 ssd's
3 unique numbers on those 5 stickerss the same numbers you can see
above. 2 drives with the same sticker, 2 more drive that have identical
sticks and one with a different sticker. I am inclined to think the
numbers are based on production batches, and not unique as there may be
500 in each batch.
Duplicate serial numbers are going to cause confusion.
If any of the drives with duplicate numbers are eligible for return, I
would return them. If not, perhaps you could resell them to somebody.
If you are going to keep them, I seem to recall that all five drives
were partitioned with GPT and had one large partition (?). You could
invent a unique identifier for each drive, put a physical label on each
drive, and assign the same identifier to each GPT partition label.
Alternatively, UUID's and/or PARTUUID's should be unique for both MBR
and GPT:
# ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid/
# ls -l /dev/disk/by-partuuid/
David
