At Mon, 2 Nov 2009 19:54:30 -0500 Robert Heller <heller@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> At Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:02:25 -0600 CentOS mailing list <centos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> >
> > 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.
>
> AH for the days of HSZ70 boxes... There is a command to make a selected
> disk in the array blink its light...
Here is something that seems to work:
Install sg3_utils and do something like:
sudo /usr/bin/sg_turs -n=5000 /dev/sdX
(sg_turs does a TEST UNIT READY command, in the above case, it does 5000
of them. This is enough to light up the access light for like a second
or so.)
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