Disk error - but which physical drive is it ?

Hi - I'm occasionally seeing in Sever Manager > Events > ID 153 - "The IO operation at logical block address 10028 for
Disk 6 was retried"
I have a boot-drive (obviously), and a Storage Space consisting of 4 drives setup as a 2-way mirror
In CompMgmt, I can (only) see:
Disk4 - System Reserved & (C:)
Disk5 - Storage Space (D:)
How can I find out which physical drive is Drive 6 ?
-Tom

Hi Luc - this is what I've got:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\disk\Enum]
"0"="SCSI\\Disk&Ven_WDC&Prod_WD10EACS-65D6B0\\4&314aa983&0&000000"
"1"="SCSI\\Disk&Ven_WDC&Prod_WD10EACS-65D6B0\\4&314aa983&0&010000"
"2"="SCSI\\Disk&Ven_WDC&Prod_WD10EACS-65D6B0\\4&314aa983&0&020000"
"3"="SCSI\\Disk&Ven_&Prod_ST31000340AS\\4&314aa983&0&030000"
"4"="SCSI\\Disk&Ven_ATA&Prod_FUJITSU_MJA2500B\\5&23edb610&0&000100"
"5"="STORAGE\\Disk\\{d8cabde7-ccd9-11e1-bbc5-441ea13ee209}"
"Count"=dword:00000006
"NextInstance"=dword:00000006
Looking at the details of Event 153 (there were 40 of them all within 1 minute), it actually shows : "\Device\Harddisk6\DR8"
I've Google'd this and (some) hits point to it possibly being a USB device - perhaps a USB stick ?
(My drives are all SATA, and hang off an IBM BR10i SAS controller)
Anyway, there have been no further errors
-Tom

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