topic Making the Drive light flash in Operating System - HP-UX

Making the Drive light flash

Marty Metras — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 10:53:28 GMT

When you use SAM to replace a drive that is mirrored, The message when it is ready to swap out the drive it will have the LED on the drive flash do you can be sure you have the right drive.
I was wondering how you could make the drive LED flash from the command line.
Does any one know?
Marty

Re: Making the Drive light flash

James R. Ferguson — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 10:57:30 GMT

Hi Marty:

# dd if=/dev/rdsk/cXtYdZ of=/dev/null bs=1024k

Interrupt with CTL_C when you want to terminate.

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: Making the Drive light flash

Marty Metras — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 11:10:23 GMT

Thanks James
I had never thought of the 'dd' command.

Marty