Re: [CentOS] RHEL-6 vs. CentOS-5.5

2011-02-02 Thread Lamar Owen
On Wednesday, February 02, 2011 08:04:43 pm Les Mikesell wrote: > I think there are ways that drives can fail that would make them not be > detected > at all - and for an autodetected raid member in a system that has been > rebooted, > not leave much evidence of where it was when it worked. If

Re: [CentOS] RHEL-6 vs. CentOS-5.5

2011-02-02 Thread Les Mikesell
On 2/2/11 5:57 PM, Chuck Munro wrote: > > The use of the new RHEL-6/CentOS-6 'udevadm' command nicely maps out the > hardware path no matter the order the drives are detected/named, and > since hardware paths are fixed, I just have to attach a little tag to > each SATA cable with that path number o

Re: [CentOS] RHEL-6 vs. CentOS-5.5 (was: Static assignment of SCSI device names?)

2011-02-02 Thread Chuck Munro
On 02/02/2011 09:00 AM, Lamar Owen wrote: > > On Wednesday, February 02, 2011 02:06:15 am Chuck Munro wrote: >> > The real key is to carefully label each SATA cable and its associated >> > drive. Then the little mapping script can be used to identify the >> > faulty drive which mdadm reports

Re: [CentOS] RHEL-6 vs. CentOS-5.5 (was: Static assignment of, SCSI device names?)

2011-02-02 Thread Lamar Owen
On Wednesday, February 02, 2011 02:06:15 am Chuck Munro wrote: > The real key is to carefully label each SATA cable and its associated > drive. Then the little mapping script can be used to identify the > faulty drive which mdadm reports by its device name. It just occurred > to me that whenev

Re: [CentOS] RHEL-6 vs. CentOS-5.5 (was: Static assignment of, SCSI device names?)

2011-02-01 Thread Chuck Munro
Les Mikesell wrote: > > On 1/30/11 1:37 PM, Chuck Munro wrote: >> > Hello list members, >> > >> > My adventure into udev rules has taken an interesting turn. I did >> > discover a stupid error in the way I was attempting to assign static >> > disk device names on CentOS-5.5, so that's out of the w

Re: [CentOS] RHEL-6 vs. CentOS-5.5 (was: Static assignment of SCSI device names?)

2011-01-30 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 2:37 PM, Chuck Munro wrote: > Hello list members, > > My adventure into udev rules has taken an interesting turn.  I did > discover a stupid error in the way I was attempting to assign static > disk device names on CentOS-5.5, so that's out of the way. > > But in the proces

Re: [CentOS] RHEL-6 vs. CentOS-5.5 (was: Static assignment of SCSI device names?)

2011-01-30 Thread Les Mikesell
On 1/30/11 1:37 PM, Chuck Munro wrote: > Hello list members, > > My adventure into udev rules has taken an interesting turn. I did > discover a stupid error in the way I was attempting to assign static > disk device names on CentOS-5.5, so that's out of the way. > > But in the process of exploring

Re: [CentOS] RHEL-6 vs. CentOS-5.5 (was: Static assignment of SCSI device names?)

2011-01-30 Thread Robert Heller
At Sun, 30 Jan 2011 11:37:19 -0800 CentOS mailing list wrote: > > Hello list members, > > My adventure into udev rules has taken an interesting turn. I did > discover a stupid error in the way I was attempting to assign static > disk device names on CentOS-5.5, so that's out of the way. >

[CentOS] RHEL-6 vs. CentOS-5.5 (was: Static assignment of SCSI device names?)

2011-01-30 Thread Chuck Munro
Hello list members, My adventure into udev rules has taken an interesting turn. I did discover a stupid error in the way I was attempting to assign static disk device names on CentOS-5.5, so that's out of the way. But in the process of exploring, I installed a trial copy of RHEL-6 on the new