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From: aurfalien <aurfalien@gmail.com>
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Subject: drive blink on demand?
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2013 14:09:25 -0800
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Hi,

I've 42 disks across 4 JBODs using LSI HBAs.

I've been doing dd if=3D/dev/disk... of=3D/dev/null and watching what =
rapidly blinks to identify drives.

However is there a better or at least non janky way to do this?

- aurf