Hammer8 Posted June 6, 2021 Share Posted June 6, 2021 Hi, I’ve googled this a bit but can seem to find something that will blink the drive LED to help me identify a drive that’s in the chassis. I’ve tried disk location, but that doesn’t seem to work…is there something else to try? On these chassis, there are two LEDs, a blue activity light and a red identify led. I’d like to blink the red LED so that I can identify a drive even when there is activity. Thank you! Quote Link to comment
hawihoney Posted June 6, 2021 Share Posted June 6, 2021 Didn't you write down serials when populating the DAS? Quote Link to comment
Hammer8 Posted June 6, 2021 Author Share Posted June 6, 2021 That seems so 80’s! Even Windows Powershell lets me blink the identity LEDs! Quote Link to comment
hawihoney Posted June 6, 2021 Share Posted June 6, 2021 (edited) Didn't know that. Can you please elaborate. We're talking about a DAS/JBOD chassis attached to a main server and the main servers HBA (or the main servers backplane expander), right? If it works that way and it's important to you, I would install a Windows VM. Edited June 6, 2021 by hawihoney Quote Link to comment
Vr2Io Posted June 6, 2021 Share Posted June 6, 2021 Could be overlook it is enclosure locator LED not disk LED, no detail from plugin creator. Quote Link to comment
hawihoney Posted June 6, 2021 Share Posted June 6, 2021 (edited) 33 minutes ago, Vr2Io said: Could be overlook it is enclosure locator LED not disk LED, no detail from plugin creator. Did look into source code. It uses sg_ses: https://sg.danny.cz/sg/sg_ses.html Seems that this utility can flash disk and enclosure LEDs. Never needed a tool like that - all disks are proper labeled and archived here - but would be fun to look into it. Fast way: Windows VM. Slow way: Try to get this into Slackware/Unraid. ***EDIT*** Thinking about it, I doubt it will work in a Windows VM. Passed through disks are serviced by host. Only passed through HBAs are in service by VM, Sorry. ***EDIT2*** sg3_utils are part of NERD-Pack plugin. Edited June 6, 2021 by hawihoney Quote Link to comment
Hammer8 Posted June 6, 2021 Author Share Posted June 6, 2021 1 hour ago, Vr2Io said: You could try below plugin Awesome! Exactly what I was looking for…thank you!! Quote Link to comment
Vr2Io Posted June 6, 2021 Share Posted June 6, 2021 2 minutes ago, Hammer8 said: Awesome! Exactly what I was looking for…thank you!! Could you share that plugin outlook and feature. Quote Link to comment
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