Re: info about hdds in raid

[Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx>]

John R Pierce wrote:
> Les Mikesell wrote:
>> If you can see activity lights, you can 'cat /dev/sd? >/dev/null' to 
>> make them busy, one at a time (where ? is a, b, c, etc).
>>   
> 
> hahaha, I've done that, only my version is...
> 
>     # dd if=/dev/sdX of=/dev/null bs=512
> 
> but, same difference

It's unfortunately about the best we've got when device names are 
assigned more or less randomly.  NICs are even worse - we need a command 
to make the lights blink there too.

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