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* Making disk activity LEDs flash on demand
@ 2008-12-06 14:41 Yan Seiner
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From: Yan Seiner @ 2008-12-06 14:41 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Does anyone know of a way to make a disk activity LED flash on demand?  
My server has 11 drives connected ATM with more to come.  These are 
connected in a variety of ways - 2 SCSI drives, 6 SATA drives plugged 
directly into the mobo, and 3 via port multipliers.

All of these drives are in various softRAID arrays.  I'd like to be able 
to identify a specific drive via software, so that when a drive is 
overheating or failing I can pull just that drive, instead of going 
through the 'Let's pull this one and see if that's right' routine.

Long ago I had a hardware RAID controller that could do just that.  You 
could tell it to id a specific drive and it would flash that LED.  Is 
there any way to do that?

--Yan

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