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. -- Les Mikesell at gmail.com