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From: "Matthew Elvey (munged)" <my-first-name@elvey.com>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Flashing the drive activity light....  (was Re: solution and OT RAID news-story.)
Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2004 20:58:58 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <41184802.60501@elvey.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <41135AC4.3060900@buttersideup.com>

On 8/6/2004 3:17 AM, Tim Small sent forth electrons to convey:

> a utility to flash the activity light on a SCSI drive...
>
> Any ideas anyone?

Well, there are hardware raid devices that will flash the an amber or 
red LED to indicate failure, but that'll be specific to the device.
Flashing the activity light is easy to do with a self-rolled script, no?
#!/bin/sh
while true
do
    dd or copy to cause some access
    sleep 1
done

      reply	other threads:[~2004-08-10  3:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-08-05 21:38 adding a device to existing RAID 0 jef
2004-08-06  4:17 ` solution and OT RAID news-story. (was " Matthew Elvey
2004-08-06 10:17   ` Flashing the drive activity light.... (was Re: solution and OT RAID news-story.) Tim Small
2004-08-10  3:58     ` Matthew Elvey (munged) [this message]

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