Re: Which HD is it? (I/O error: dev 08:11)

From: Måns Rullgård (mru_at_inprovide.com)
Date: 06/13/05 

Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 11:57:05 +0200

Alexandros Karypidis <akarypid@y-ah-oo.nospa/\m.com> writes:

> Hi all,
>
> The kernel on my machine spuriously prints out in its log:
>
> kernel: I/O error: dev 08:11, sector NNNNN
>
> How can I tell from the "dev 08:11" string, which disk on my machine
> has the problem? The machine has 1 SCSI and 2 IDE controllers, along
> with 6 disks (2 on the SCSI bus and 4 IDE masters, 2 per IDE
> controller).

Device 08:11 is the first partition on the second SCSI disk, commonly
known as sdb1. The numbers are in hexadecimal. See
linux/Documentation/devices.txt for the details. 

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Måns Rullgård
mru@inprovide.com