[CentOS] info about hdds in raid

Tue Nov 3 01:18:36 UTC 2009
Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com>

At Mon, 2 Nov 2009 19:54:30 -0500 Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com> wrote:

> 
> At Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:02:25 -0600 CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> wrote:
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> > 
> > John R Pierce wrote:
> > > Les Mikesell wrote:
> > >> If you can see activity lights, you can 'cat /dev/sd? >/dev/null' to 
> > >> make them busy, one at a time (where ? is a, b, c, etc).
> > >>   
> > > 
> > > hahaha, I've done that, only my version is...
> > > 
> > >     # dd if=/dev/sdX of=/dev/null bs=512
> > > 
> > > but, same difference
> > 
> > It's unfortunately about the best we've got when device names are 
> > assigned more or less randomly.  NICs are even worse - we need a command 
> > to make the lights blink there too.
> 
> AH for the days of HSZ70 boxes... There is a command to make a selected
> disk in the array blink its light...

Here is something that seems to work:

Install sg3_utils and do something like:

sudo /usr/bin/sg_turs -n=5000 /dev/sdX

(sg_turs does a TEST UNIT READY command, in the above case, it does 5000
of them.  This is enough to light up the access light for like a second
or so.)

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