On Sun, 19 Jun 2011, [email protected] wrote: > Now, I haven't gotten the failure lights working, but the activity lights > work okay, and in the rare case that my disks aren't getting hammered, > it's easy enough to generate activity. Did the top-loading chassis lack > per-disk activity lights on each drive? > > I mean, getting better mapping from the /dev/sdX name to a physical > drive would be nice, but as far as I can tell is largely impossible on > Linux.
In the past I've used smartctl to get a /dev/sdX device's serial number/device name and then used the raid card CLI to turn on the appropriate locator light. It involves jumping through a few hoops, but works well if if the raid card cli exposes serial numbers or device names. Thanks, Doug _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
