Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 20:43:49 -0600 From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HDD led stops working after FreeBSD...? Message-ID: <199904010243.UAA46321@nospam.hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: Message from Greg Black <gjb@comkey.com.au> of "Thu, 01 Apr 1999 06:41:38 %2B1000." <19990331204139.7697.qmail@alpha.comkey.com.au>
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If this is to continue it really should be on -chat. Greg Black writes: > > Okay you guys, this is fascinating -- but why do you care about > LEDs on your disks? I haven't had a (visible) LED on a disk for > at least ten years and have never wished I had. Is there some > reason for wanting them? It proves to your PHB (Pointy Haired Bosse) that the machine is working its ass off for him. This impresses PHB's who then go back to their office, order more HD's on their Windows Box, and try to replicate the demo. A 6' rack of StorageTek (Clariion) was delivered for a project. Had 3 bays that would hold 30 disks each. But only 24 disks were delivered. I rearanged those into (4) RAID-5's, (3) hot swaps, and (1) Plain Old Disk. Then under Irix striped the RAID-5's into one 137G FS. Then when VIP's showed up, would launch a big "dd if=/dev/zero of=/file-on-raid" so all 20 HD LED's would be flashing. Everybody always loved the show. Even those who knew how silly it was because they *knew* I was putting on a show. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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