Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 13:53:54 +0100 From: Matt Burke <mattblists@icritical.com> To: Fred Liu <Fred_Liu@issi.com> Cc: "freebsd-stable@freebsd.org" <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: SAS Drive identification LEDs Message-ID: <4F7309E2.4000502@icritical.com> In-Reply-To: <A5A6EA4AE9DCC44F8E7FCB4D6317B1D201C61C7744B1@SH-MAIL.ISSI.COM> References: <4F68FC3E.2090401@icritical.com> <4F71FEAE.3090506@icritical.com> <A5A6EA4AE9DCC44F8E7FCB4D6317B1D201C61C774418@SH-MAIL.ISSI.COM> <4F72C588.2000204@icritical.com> <A5A6EA4AE9DCC44F8E7FCB4D6317B1D201C61C7744B1@SH-MAIL.ISSI.COM>
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On 03/28/12 12:40, Fred Liu wrote:
>> Shouldn't imagine so... I'm using a set of 4x four-bay Chenbro
>> 80H10321513C0 jobbies in a 4U box for a total of 16 disks.
>>
>> My original post showed me lighting up an identification LED by poking
>> values at the backplane via the ses device, but the Areca utility seems
>> to
>> do it by poking the drives themselves - which is a much better solution
>> and
>> *should* be backplane-agnostic.
>
> Sounds very good! But what if the drive is thoroughly damaged?
How would you identify such a drive on any other system?
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