At Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:02:25 -0600 CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> wrote: > > 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... > -- Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 Deepwoods Software -- Download the Model Railroad System http://www.deepsoft.com/ -- Binaries for Linux and MS-Windows heller at deepsoft.com -- http://www.deepsoft.com/ModelRailroadSystem/