[ale] Bad Hard Drive

[Gene Poole]

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:

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.
The boot display gives me:
Port 1 : SATA1
Port 2 : SATA3
Port 3 : SATA2
Port 4 : SATA4
As near as I can figure out, the fdisk -l command lists them as:
SATA1 : /dev/sda
SATA3 : /dev/sdc
SATA2 : /dev/sdb
SATA4 : /dev/sdd
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.

Thanks,
Gene Poole
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