[ale] make a drive light blink

J. D. jdonline at gmail.com
Mon Feb 22 19:04:27 EST 2010


If you steadily write to the array is there one drive that doesn't blink?

On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 6:44 PM, Brian W. Neu <ale at advancedopen.com> wrote:

>  That will work if I fail it out of the array, reformat it and then do your
> recursive find.  Or even a format with a -c for bad blocks.
>
> I was hoping to just use some hardware ninja magic to get it to put it's
> hand in the air.
>
>
>
> On 2/22/2010 6:29 PM, J. D. wrote:
>
> If the drive is mounted then I would suggest accessing it by a datastream.
> You could do a dd, or a recursive find (find $PWD -type f -exec grep -nH foo
> {} \;) and light the drive up solid.
>
> Best regards,
>
> J. D.
>
> On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 11:29 AM, Brian W. Neu <ale at advancedopen.com>wrote:
>
>> I have to remove a SATA drive with some SMART errors . . . but finding
>> it isn't exactly easy as it's part of a RAID in an internal 5-in-3
>> enclosure.
>>
>> Does anyone know of a way to make it blink?
>>
>> I guess I could fail it and it would be the only one not blinking, but I
>> was hoping to find an answer to this anyway.
>>
>> Thanks!
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