From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tim Small Subject: Re: Determining which spindle is out of order Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2010 20:03:20 +0000 Message-ID: <4CD1C008.5040605@seoss.co.uk> References: <4CD17583.6070909@seoss.co.uk> <4CD1992D.3050008@tmr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4CD1992D.3050008@tmr.com> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Bill Davidsen Cc: Jon@eHardcastle.com, Jon Hardcastle , Nat Makarevitch , linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids On 03/11/10 17:17, Bill Davidsen wrote: > When I ran servers for an ISP we had a utility which blinked the light > on the drive (assumes it hasn't gone utterly belly up, of course). > I believe that this is part of the SCSI standard, certainly a brief look around a few months ago didn't turn up a way of doing this for SATA drives (i.e. nothing in the relevant standards, particular drive vendors may have their own non-standard commands to do this, or enclosure manufacturers may have out-of-band methods for this). If anyone knows better, please let me know! Cheers, Tim. -- South East Open Source Solutions Limited Registered in England and Wales with company number 06134732. Registered Office: 2 Powell Gardens, Redhill, Surrey, RH1 1TQ VAT number: 900 6633 53 http://seoss.co.uk/ +44-(0)1273-808309