On 29 Mar 2006, at 17:46, Jon Simola wrote: > On 3/29/06, Gaby vanhegan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Am I still going to be able to use the nice blink functions in >> bioctl? I'd like to know which drive my RAID card thinks has died... > > You'd have to get a backplane with safte or ses that the card can talk > to. The drive enclosures you linked to are dumb sleds. They do have > activity lights, so you could always perform some heavy drive activity > and, by a process of elimination, the one without the blinking > activity light is the failed drive.
I thought that this might be the case. A backplane of some sort is totally outside my budget. I'll just have to carefully label and wire up the drives in their 'sleds' :) They do have two lights, one for power and one for drive activity. I was just wondering if the activity light could be reached by bioctl. On 29 Mar 2006, at 18:01, Per-Olov Sjvholm wrote: > I think it should work with a command like "bioctl -b > channel:target.lun > ami0". If its not in an enclosure it will tell... > > Try "man bioctl" When I get my sweaty little hands on the card, I'll give that a try. On 29 Mar 2006, at 18:03, Marco Peereboom wrote: > You show me a SATA drive that has an LED first :-) Fair point. The caddy does claim to have a light, but if bioctl only talks to SAFTE enclosures and backplanes for this sort of thing, it's not usable for this purpose. Gaby -- Junkets for bunterish lickspittles since 1998! http://www.playr.co.uk/sudoku/ http://weblog.vanhegan.net/
