<font size=2 face="sans-serif">I'm not sure who is right or wrong on how
the drives are sequenced. But, I looked at my machine attempting
to figure out what drive should be replaced and between what's on the mother
board and what's being displayed I get the following:</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">The mother board (MSI) has 6 SATA ports;
4 standard ports (labeled 1, 2, 3, 4 on the mother board) and 2 'special'
SATA ports for a raid configuration, but for windows only and not being
used.</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">The boot display gives me:</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Port 1 : SATA1</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Port 2 : SATA3</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Port 3 : SATA2</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Port 4 : SATA4</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">As near as I can figure out, the fdisk
-l command lists them as:</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">SATA1 : /dev/sda</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">SATA3 : /dev/sdc</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">SATA2 : /dev/sdb</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">SATA4 : /dev/sdd</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">My error message states that the /dev/sdb
drive is bad. WEBMIN gives me the drive (Seagate) and the model number
and serial number of the drive. I didn't get all four drives from
the same vendor, sda and sdb are from Seagate; sdc and sdd are from Hitachi.
I think I'll get a WD or Samsung going forward.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Thanks,<br>
Gene Poole<br>
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