Identifying physical disks in TrueNAS

by James McDonald | Jul 24, 2026 | IT Tips | 0 comments

Manufacturer: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.

Product Name: A520I AC

In the end I guess to properly map physical drives to physical motherboard connectors would be to shutdown, remove a cable, boot up and see what is missing.

After all the below I still can't solidly map to the physical cable / motherboard connector with complete confidence. But my guess is the physical connectors map to (if that is the way they are enumerated by the operating system at boot up).

0 [0:0:0:0] ata1

1 [1:0:0:0] ata2

2 [4:0:0:0] ata5

3 [5:0:0:0] ata6

dmesg | grep 'SATA link'
[    4.120671] ata1: SATA link up 6.0 Gbps (SStatus 133 SControl 300)
[    4.612668] ata2: SATA link up 6.0 Gbps (SStatus 133 SControl 300)
[    5.104669] ata5: SATA link up 6.0 Gbps (SStatus 133 SControl 300)
[    5.596674] ata6: SATA link up 6.0 Gbps (SStatus 133 SControl 300)
lsscsi --verbose
[0:0:0:0]    disk    ATA      WDC WD80EFAX-68K 0A81  /dev/sda
  dir: /sys/bus/scsi/devices/0:0:0:0  [/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.2/0000:02:00.1/ata1/host0/target0:0:0/0:0:0:0]
[1:0:0:0]    disk    ATA      WDC WD80EFAX-68K 0A81  /dev/sdb
  dir: /sys/bus/scsi/devices/1:0:0:0  [/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.2/0000:02:00.1/ata2/host1/target1:0:0/1:0:0:0]
[4:0:0:0]    disk    ATA      WDC WD80EFAX-68K 0A81  /dev/sdd
  dir: /sys/bus/scsi/devices/4:0:0:0  [/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.2/0000:02:00.1/ata5/host4/target4:0:0/4:0:0:0]
[5:0:0:0]    disk    ATA      WDC WD80EFAX-68K 0A81  /dev/sdc
  dir: /sys/bus/scsi/devices/5:0:0:0  [/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.2/0000:02:00.1/ata6/host5/target5:0:0/5:0:0:0]
[N:0:0:1]    dsk/nvm BIWIN NV3500 1TB__1                        /dev/nvme0n1
  dir: /sys/class/nvme/nvme0/nvme0n1  [/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.1/0000:01:00.0/nvme/nvme0/nvme0n1]
lspci -v

# snippage...

02:00.1 SATA controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] 500 Series Chipset SATA Controller (prog-if 01 [AHCI 1.0])
        Subsystem: ASMedia Technology Inc. ASM1062 Serial ATA Controller
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 48, IOMMU group 15
        Memory at fc780000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128K]
        Expansion ROM at fc700000 [disabled] [size=512K]
        Capabilities: [50] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
        Capabilities: [78] Power Management version 3
        Capabilities: [80] Express Legacy Endpoint, MSI 00
        Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting
        Kernel driver in use: ahci
        Kernel modules: ahci

# snippage...
lsscsi -H
[0]    ahci
[1]    ahci
[2]    ahci
[3]    ahci
[4]    ahci
[5]    ahci
[N:0]  /dev/nvme0  BIWIN NV3500 1TB                  BSAC46110303270     GT1e6633
root@truenas[/mnt/pool0/homes/myuser]# lsscsi -g
[0:0:0:0]    disk    ATA      WDC WD80EFAX-68K 0A81  /dev/sda   /dev/sg0
[1:0:0:0]    disk    ATA      WDC WD80EFAX-68K 0A81  /dev/sdb   /dev/sg1
[4:0:0:0]    disk    ATA      WDC WD80EFAX-68K 0A81  /dev/sdd   /dev/sg2
[5:0:0:0]    disk    ATA      WDC WD80EFAX-68K 0A81  /dev/sdc   /dev/sg3
[N:0:0:1]    disk    BIWIN NV3500 1TB__1                        /dev/nvme0n1  -
lsblk -o NAME,MODEL,SERIAL,WWN,HCTL

NAME        MODEL                SERIAL          WWN                                  HCTL
sda         WDC WD80EFAX-68KNBN0 VAHSR2WL        0x5000cca099d8def9                   0:0:0:0
└─sda1                                           0x5000cca099d8def9
sdb         WDC WD80EFAX-68KNBN0 VAHG0VKL        0x5000cca099d477ea                   1:0:0:0
└─sdb1                                           0x5000cca099d477ea
sdc         WDC WD80EFAX-68KNBN0 VAGK95TL        0x5000cca099c7dccb                   5:0:0:0
└─sdc1                                           0x5000cca099c7dccb
sdd         WDC WD80EFAX-68KNBN0 VAHWTRVL        0x5000cca099daba62                   4:0:0:0
└─sdd1                                           0x5000cca099daba62
zd0
nvme0n1     BIWIN NV3500 1TB     BSAC46110303270 eui.313033303332373050c68e0842534143
├─nvme0n1p1                                      eui.313033303332373050c68e0842534143
├─nvme0n1p2                                      eui.313033303332373050c68e0842534143
└─nvme0n1p3                                      eui.313033303332373050c68e0842534143

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