Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: > On Wed, 7 Jul 2010, Daniel Pittman wrote: > >> No. OTOH, the poor sysadmins version of the "disk identification >> light" is: >> >> sudo dd if=/dev/sdFAIL of=/dev/null >> >> ...plus a pair of eyes. FWIW. > > Yeah, if the drive is failed or if I know what drive to access I have > no problem identifying it (I can access the working array and see what > drive slots blink and which don't, or try to access the failed drive). > But I have right now no way to identify the drive on "ata14.00". I can > from dmesg deduce that it's most likely /dev/sdj (by observing the > order of things being identified), but I don't know for sure it seems. > Whilst SCSI drives have the ability to blink the activity light, I don't think SATA drives have this (BICBW). Are these links any use to you: root@ermintrude:~# ls '/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.2/host0/target0:0:0/0:0:0:0/block' sda ? Could you access all the other drives, and thus eliminate them from your enquiries? Bit naff, but better than nothing... Tim. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
