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
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