[OpenIndiana-discuss] [storage-discuss] How to blink drive light?

[Pasi Kärkkäinen]

On Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 10:24:32AM +0200, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 06, 2011 at 05:22:48PM +0100, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote:
> > > It is "based" on solaris, but many of the drivers and apps are quite
> > > different, and it supports a "generic" sas jbod's ses functions -
> > > Supermicro in my case (which is what controls the led's), when
> > > OpenSolaris does not.
> > 
> > What would it take to make these "generic" SAS JBODs work with SES? I use supermicro myself, and I guess there might be a chance for a bounty on this...
> > 
> 
> So does "sestopo" work on your Supermicro system? 
> You can also try "/usr/lib/fm/fmd/fmtopo -dV" and "prtconf -v".
> 

Did you have a chance to try these commands on your Supermicro system?

-- Pasi


> The important part is that the backplane SES chip needs to give
> disk identification for each slot, so FMA can figure out which 
> disk is in which backplane slot.
> 
> If that works, then in the event of disk failure FMA should be 
> able to match "failed disk is in slot X" based on the SES info
> and blink the correct failure LED using SES.
> 
> I don't know if FMA has all the needed bits included in opensolaris,
> I believe at least Sun Fishworks had that stuff.
> 
> Some links:
> http://blogs.sun.com/eschrock/entry/zfs_fma_hotplug_and_fishworks
> http://blogs.sun.com/eschrock/entry/solaris_platform_integration_generic_disk
> http://blogs.sun.com/eschrock/entry/ses_sensors
> http://blogs.sun.com/robj/entry/a_sensor_abstraction_layer_for
> 
> 
> -- Pasi
> 
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