On Sun, Dec 31, 2006 at 23:50:56 -0800, Curtis Doty <Curtis@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Is your original question simply how to identify /dev/sda and /dev/sdd? If so, /dev/drive/by-id will have a list of sym links named by serial number that point back to the /dev/sd? entries that you should be able to use to identify which physical drives you want to pull.