Utility for locating HD's, does one exist?

[Fritz]

All it would need to do is blink the activity light when selected. Sure would make my life a lot easier.

 

[azev]

My LSI Storage Manager have this features ?? Maybe more details on what OS and which controller you want to do this from ?

 

[Fritz]

Hmmm, didn't know LSI SM had this feature, thanks.

 

[fractal]

Is it in a hardware array? If so, you probably need to mess with the controller.

Otherwise, if it is in a software array, particularly under an xnix, just "dd if=the_drive of=/dev/null" and see which drive light comes on hard.

 

[Fritz]

2 are FreeNAS boxes running Z2 arrays and the reset are JBODs. I have 4 SM 846's and it's a PITA to locate a particular drive. I usually shut down the server and look until I find the right drive. If I could get it to flash or turn on the activity light I wouldn't have to shut them down. Haven't checked the LSI SM yet but I'm fixing too.

 

[Terry Kennedy]

2 are FreeNAS boxes running Z2 arrays and the reset are JBODs. I have 4 SM 846's and it's a PITA to locate a particular drive. I usually shut down the server and look until I find the right drive. If I could get it to flash or turn on the activity light I wouldn't have to shut them down. Haven't checked the LSI SM yet but I'm fixing too.

I use LSI's sas2ircu's LOCATE command. This works on IT as well as IR controllers.

LSI Corporation SAS2 IR Configuration Utility.
Version 20.00.00.00 (2014.09.18) 
Copyright (c) 2008-2014 LSI Corporation. All rights reserved.

sas2ircu <controller #> LOCATE <Encl:Bay> <Action> [Wait [Time]]
    where <controller #> is:
      A controller number between 0 and 255.
    where <Encl:Bay> is:
      A valid Enclosure and Bay pair to identify
      the drive
    where <Action> is:
      ON   -  turn ON the drives LED 
      OFF  -  turn OFF the drives LED 
    where [Wait [Time]] is: 
      Minimum time location indicator blink for a particular drive
           optional option, valid only for ON action
      Time -  Waiting time between 1 to 60 seconds

Examples: sas3ircu 1 locate 1:3 ON 
                   sas3ircu 1 locate 1:3 ON WAIT 10
          sas3ircu 1 locate 1:3 OFF

SAS2IRCU: Utility Completed Successfully.

There's also a sas3ircu for newer controllers.

HOWEVER, this only works if you have the backplane SGPIO connected to the controller, either via a multi-lane SAS cable with sidebands or a dedicated SGPIO cable - the Supermicro backplane second LEDs are only available via the SGPIO interface.

 

[Fritz]

Thank you sir.

 

[yu130960]

Otherwise, if it is in a software array, particularly under an xnix, just "dd if=the_drive of=/dev/null" and see which drive light comes on hard.

+1 on this