[Bulk] re-mapping an older disk ??

Greg Woods woods at ucar.edu
Wed Feb 22 19:21:49 UTC 2012


On Wed, 2012-02-22 at 11:00 -0600, Steven Stern wrote:
> On 02/22/2012 10:56 AM, William Case wrote:

> > 1) Hardware from switching the disk's order around (channel 1 <==>
> > channel 2 in BIOS)
> > 2) Improperly installing or using LVM
> > 3) Remapping
> > 4) Hard drive really is broken.
> > 
> 
> SMART talks directly to the disk, so #4 is the most likely case.

Since the OP did move disks around, another possibility is that a cable
is not well-seated. This is always the first thing I check any time
there is something that looks like a hardware problem.

--Greg




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