[ale] make a drive light blink

[Greg Freemyer]

If you just do a shell loop to call hdparm -I on the drive, does it
cause the light to blink?



On 2/22/10, 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.
>>>
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