On Wednesday December 22, michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> <snip>
> > Use a command like this to cause your disks to have activity, then look for
> > the blinking lights:
> > dd if=/dev/md/1 of=/dev/null bs=64k
> >
>
> Oh swell!.... I have one blinking light for ALL the disks on all 12 of
> our raid systems. There has to be a better way.
There are really only two ways:
1/ make lights blinks.
2/ have labels on the front of each bay saying what SCSI (or
whatever) ID the device has.
If your storage array does not have per-device lights, or per-device
labels, you should speak sternly to your hardware provider.
NeilBrown
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