[ale] make a drive light blink

[J. D.]

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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