<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=iso-8859-1"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Aug 13, 2015, at 8:47 AM, Randy S <<a href="mailto:sim.ple@live.nl" class="">sim.ple@live.nl</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""> <style class=""></style> <div class="hmmessage"><div dir="ltr" class="">Hi,<br class=""><br class="">A while ago I had a moment to test a 730XD with a md3060e jbod. <br class="">I have read the other threads regarding the 730 usability.<br class="">I had no problems with it using omnios R12. However the use of the JBOD did raise an issue regarding blinking disk leds.<br class=""><br class="">I noticed that the signals send with sas2ircu were not doing their job (nothing blinks). After some calls to dell technicians, I heard<br class="">that dell has disabled these signals in their firmware and only allows signalling through their own tool, which only works with windows<br class="">and some linux flavours.<br class=""><br class="">At that time I hear about santools which "might propably" be used for this blinking functionality (and more), but you have to buy it to test it.<br class="">Bit expensive for a test.<br class=""><br class="">After this long intro, my question is:<br class="">Does anybody know of a another way (script, tools etc) to get this blinking functionality going in this hardware combination (ofcourse NOT using dd) ?<br class=""></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div>Try fmtopo first. There are 3 indicators defined: fail, ident, ok2rm. Many SES vendors</div><div>only implement fail and ident. Here an example:</div><div><br class=""></div><div><span style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue';font-size:14px;" class="">/usr/lib/fm/fmd/fmtopo -P facility.mode=uint32:1 <a href="hc://:chassis-mfg=XYZ:chassis-name=XYZ-ABC:chassis-part=unknown:chassis-serial=500093d0016cc76/ses-enclosure=0/bay=1?indicator=fail" class="">hc://:chassis-mfg=XYZ:chassis-name=XYZ-ABC:chassis-part=unknown:chassis-serial=500093d0016cc76/ses-enclosure=0/bay=1?indicator=fail</a></span></div><div><br class=""></div><div>to de-assert the indicator, facility.mode=uint32:0</div><div><br class=""></div><div>to find the FMRI string, use fmtopo to observe what your hardware reports.</div><div> -- richard</div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div class="hmmessage"><div dir="ltr" class=""><br class="">As I understood, this same combination is used, as a standard, by a another (big) illumos kernel user and their systems also do not blink disks. I however,<br class="">would like to be able to find a disk easilly to e.g. replace and not only depend on the internal disk tests which the JBOD seems to do by itself regardless of the OS used. <br class=""><br class="">(Dell told me theJBOD detects defect disks by itself by performing some periodic tests. How it does this I do not know).<br class=""><br class="">Regards,<br class=""><br class="">R<br class=""> </div></div> _______________________________________________<br class="">OmniOS-discuss mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:OmniOS-discuss@lists.omniti.com" class="">OmniOS-discuss@lists.omniti.com</a><br class="">http://lists.omniti.com/mailman/listinfo/omnios-discuss<br class=""></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></body></html>