Category Archives: hardware

mdadm replace broken drive on Debian Jessie

Posted on 21/04/2018 by sta.ee

If the drive should be replaced, then 1. start with determining which one is broken. See details of md device # mdadm –detail /dev/mdX # smartctl -a /dev/sdY  smartmontools required to be installed 2. replace required drive physically 3. See … Continue reading →

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MiniSAS, MiniSAS HD, IPASS, SFF8087, SFF8643 example

Posted on 24/03/2017 by sta.ee

Always need this information, decided to create post for it. CBL-SAST-0507-01 HD SAS -> mSAS(SFF8087) SFF8643 to SFF8087 Mini SAS Cable cable suits to rs2bl0x0 (miniSAS or ipass or sff8087) and hdsas backplane on supermicros cse-826be1c-r902lpb, like this one: https://www.supermicro.com/products/chassis/2U/826/SC826BE1C-R920LPB … Continue reading →

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ddrescue map file bad sectors position counting

Posted on 03/02/2017 by sta.ee

If hdd failed and image recovered by ddrescue, might be necessary to know the failed sectors positions. For example hdd failed and recover by ddrescue /dev/sdd /dev/null /root/1tb.log –force log its content: # Rescue Logfile. Created by GNU ddrescue version … Continue reading →

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Aligned advanced format partition creation using gparted under debian 6.0.7

Posted on 08/04/2013 by sta.ee

This applies when new uninitialized drive used. parted (parted) print Error: /dev/sdb: unrecognised disk label (parted) mklabel gpt (parted) unit S (parted) mkpart Name ext3 2048 100% (parted) align-check optimal 1 1 aligned Then format must be performed and partition … Continue reading →

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