Re: [gentoo-user] Udev rules for identical hard drives

2012-08-03 Thread Dale
Paul Hartman wrote: > On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 1:40 AM, Dale wrote: >> Nope. I didn't notice he was trying to use 3.2 until after I hit send. >> Bad thing about emails, you can't delete them after they are sent. :/ > In the good old days you could compose offline, and not send them > until the nex

Re: [gentoo-user] Udev rules for identical hard drives

2012-08-03 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 1:40 AM, Dale wrote: > Nope. I didn't notice he was trying to use 3.2 until after I hit send. > Bad thing about emails, you can't delete them after they are sent. :/ In the good old days you could compose offline, and not send them until the next time you dialed up, so yo

Re: [gentoo-user] Udev rules for identical hard drives

2012-08-02 Thread Dale
Alex Schuster wrote: > Dale writes: > >> Alex Schuster wrote: >>> Mark Knecht writes: >>> Check out the very nice 'lsdrv' script by Phil Turmel. Run it, save a copy of the output for bad times. https://github.com/pturmel/lsdrv >>> That doesn't work here, and I do not understand

Re: [gentoo-user] Udev rules for identical hard drives

2012-08-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 2 Aug 2012 19:43:50 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: > BTW, sys-fs/udev-187 does not have the 'udevinfo' command, it seems to > be 'udevadm info' now. udevinfo disappeared a long time ago. I wrote a script called udevinfo to call mdadm info so that I didn't need thchage my setup, it is dated

Re: [gentoo-user] Udev rules for identical hard drives

2012-08-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 2 Aug 2012 12:59:19 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: > You can get the ATTRS{serial} (i.e. serial number). Not all drives supply this. I have a pair of Seagate drives and a pair of WD drives. Neither drive is distinguishable from its twin with udev attributes. -- Neil Bothwick If nothing s

Re: [gentoo-user] Udev rules for identical hard drives

2012-08-02 Thread Alex Schuster
Mark Knecht writes: > On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 8:02 AM, Alex Schuster > wrote: > > Mark Knecht writes: > > > >> Check out the very nice 'lsdrv' script by Phil Turmel. Run it, save a > >> copy of the output for bad times. > >> > >> https://github.com/pturmel/lsdrv > > > > That doesn't work here, and

Re: [gentoo-user] Udev rules for identical hard drives

2012-08-02 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: > Alex Schuster wrote: > > Mark Knecht writes: > > > >> Check out the very nice 'lsdrv' script by Phil Turmel. Run it, save a > >> copy of the output for bad times. > >> > >> https://github.com/pturmel/lsdrv > > That doesn't work here, and I do not understand why. In line 305 it > > t

Re: [gentoo-user] Udev rules for identical hard drives

2012-08-02 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 10:43 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Thursday 02 August 2012 16:50:36 Mark Knecht wrote: > >> Dunno about the python-3.2 thing. Are you set to use 3.2 by default? >> (How aggressive of you!) ;-) I'm set to use 2.7 as default which I >> think is the overall recommendation of

Re: [gentoo-user] Udev rules for identical hard drives

2012-08-02 Thread Alex Schuster
Walter Dnes writes: > You can get the ATTRS{serial} (i.e. serial number). See the printer > example at http://www.reactivated.net/writing_udev_rules.html and adapt > to your hard drive. Serial numbers should be unique, even amongst > otherwise identical drives... > > =

Re: [gentoo-user] Udev rules for identical hard drives

2012-08-02 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday 02 August 2012 16:50:36 Mark Knecht wrote: > Dunno about the python-3.2 thing. Are you set to use 3.2 by default? > (How aggressive of you!) ;-) I'm set to use 2.7 as default which I > think is the overall recommendation of dummies like me: I thought so too, so I was surprised to find

Re: [gentoo-user] Udev rules for identical hard drives

2012-08-02 Thread Walter Dnes
On Thu, Aug 02, 2012 at 01:34:04AM +0200, Alex Schuster wrote > So I made some udev rules like this, and my drives are called /dev/hd1, > hd2 and hd3: > > SUBSYSTEMS=="scsi", KERNEL=="sd?", ATTRS{model}=="SAMSUNG HD154UI", > SYMLINK="hd1" > > This works fine, and this way I can address them in s

Re: [gentoo-user] Udev rules for identical hard drives

2012-08-02 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 8:02 AM, Alex Schuster wrote: > Mark Knecht writes: > >> Check out the very nice 'lsdrv' script by Phil Turmel. Run it, save a >> copy of the output for bad times. >> >> https://github.com/pturmel/lsdrv > > That doesn't work here, and I do not understand why. In line 305 it

Re: [gentoo-user] Udev rules for identical hard drives

2012-08-02 Thread Dale
Alex Schuster wrote: > Mark Knecht writes: > >> Check out the very nice 'lsdrv' script by Phil Turmel. Run it, save a >> copy of the output for bad times. >> >> https://github.com/pturmel/lsdrv > That doesn't work here, and I do not understand why. In line 305 it tries > and fails to create /dev/bl

Re: [gentoo-user] Udev rules for identical hard drives

2012-08-02 Thread Alex Schuster
Mark Knecht writes: > Check out the very nice 'lsdrv' script by Phil Turmel. Run it, save a > copy of the output for bad times. > > https://github.com/pturmel/lsdrv That doesn't work here, and I do not understand why. In line 305 it tries and fails to create /dev/block, which is already existing

Re: [gentoo-user] Udev rules for identical hard drives

2012-08-02 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 3:38 AM, Alex Schuster wrote: > Alex Schuster writes: > >> Canek Peláez Valdés writes: > >> > $ ll /dev/disk/by-id >> > ... >> > ata-SAMSUNG_HD160JJ_S08HJ10YC13279 -> ../../sda >> > ... >> > >> > That's a whole drive right there. >> >> Wow, now I feel really stupid :) You ar

Re: [gentoo-user] Udev rules for identical hard drives

2012-08-02 Thread Alex Schuster
Alex Schuster writes: > Canek Peláez Valdés writes: > > $ ll /dev/disk/by-id > > ... > > ata-SAMSUNG_HD160JJ_S08HJ10YC13279 -> ../../sda > > ... > > > > That's a whole drive right there. > > Wow, now I feel really stupid :) You are so right, they are there, and I > don't why I overlooked them..

Re: [gentoo-user] Udev rules for identical hard drives

2012-08-02 Thread Alex Schuster
Canek Peláez Valdés writes: > On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 7:42 PM, Alex Schuster > wrote: > > Canek Peláez Valdés writes: > [ snip ] > >> Oh, and I forgot; doesn't the links in /dev/disk/by-id, > >> /dev/disk/by-label, /dev/disk/by-uuid do what you want to? > > > > Those seem to list partitions only,

Re: [gentoo-user] Udev rules for identical hard drives

2012-08-01 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 7:42 PM, Alex Schuster wrote: > Canek Peláez Valdés writes: [ snip ] >> Oh, and I forgot; doesn't the links in /dev/disk/by-id, >> /dev/disk/by-label, /dev/disk/by-uuid do what you want to? > > Those seem to list partitions only, not whole drives. A label for a drive > would

Re: [gentoo-user] Udev rules for identical hard drives

2012-08-01 Thread Alex Schuster
Canek Peláez Valdés writes: > On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 6:59 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés > wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 6:34 PM, Alex Schuster > > wrote: [...] > >> Could there be another way to distinguish the drives, like looking > >> at the partition scheme or something? > > > > If you want to

Re: [gentoo-user] Udev rules for identical hard drives

2012-08-01 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 6:59 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 6:34 PM, Alex Schuster wrote: >> Hi there! >> >> I do not understand the numbering of my hard drives. There may be some >> inherent logic, but whenever I make some changes, like replacing drives, >> or changing BI

Re: [gentoo-user] Udev rules for identical hard drives

2012-08-01 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 6:34 PM, Alex Schuster wrote: > Hi there! > > I do not understand the numbering of my hard drives. There may be some > inherent logic, but whenever I make some changes, like replacing drives, > or changing BIOS settings, the order changes. Maybe it's even more random. > > So