Re: How to Locate drive directly attached to mpt3sas HBA

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On Mon, 2018-03-19 at 15:20 +0100, Douglas Gilbert wrote:
> On 2018-03-19 11:40 AM, Jack Wang wrote:
> > 
> > Hi list,
> > 
> > Any one knows how can I locate a HDD directly attached to mpt3sas,
> > sas3ircu only supports LOCATE commd to locates driver installed in
> > a
> > disk enclosure, but not directly attached.
> > 
> > I know microsemi/PMCs supports SGPIO interface to locate drive eg:
> >   Adp80xxapp sgpio 0 set 0 1
> > 
> > I searched in latest upstream mpt3sas code, didn't find such
> > interface. Do I miss something?
> 
> Hi,
> If its a SAS disk, it might have an onboard LED.
> 
> In the sdparm package there is a script called "sas_disk_blink"
> that will flash that LED.
> 
> 
> And I think either mpt2sas and/or mpt3sas HBAs (I don't have my
> hardware nearby) have a SMP target hidden away somewhere. Perhaps
> someone from LSI/Avago/Broadcom could supply more information about
> that.

And if mpt3sas just used the standard Linux SES infrastructure, you'd
find the disk in sysfs linked to the slot along with a nice sysfs file
you can write to to flash the locator light.

James




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