How to identify and blink an enclosure drive
How to identify a single drive in a server SAS enclosure
1. Find the enclosure ID
sas2ircu list
LSI Corporation SAS2 IR Configuration Utility.
Version 20.00.00.00 (2014.09.18)
Copyright (c) 2008-2014 LSI Corporation. All rights reserved.
Adapter Vendor Device SubSys SubSys
Index Type ID ID Pci Address Ven ID Dev ID
----- ------------ ------ ------ ----------------- ------ ------
0 SAS2308_2 1000h 87h 00h:02h:00h:00h 1028h 1f38h
Adapter Vendor Device SubSys SubSys
Index Type ID ID Pci Address Ven ID Dev ID
----- ------------ ------ ------ ----------------- ------ ------
1 SAS2308_2 1000h 87h 00h:43h:00h:00h 1000h 3040h
SAS2IRCU: Utility Completed Successfully.
2. Display drives of the enclosure and find the drive by serial number
sas2ircu 0 display|less
...
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Physical device information
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Initiator at ID #0
Device is a Hard disk
Enclosure # : 2
Slot # : 0
SAS Address : 5000c50-0-71ba-bf59
State : Ready (RDY)
Size (in MB)/(in sectors) : 572325/1172123567
Manufacturer : NETAPP
Model Number : X422_SLTNG600A10
Firmware Revision : NA02
Serial No : S0M1ZCWK
GUID : 5000c50071babf5b
Protocol : SAS
Drive Type : SAS_HDD
...
3. Find drive path from serial number
lsblk -n -o PATH,SERIAL | grep 'A0IVFUZ5'
/dev/sdq 25R0A0IVFUZ5
4. Create fake activity to identify drive
dd if=/dev/sdq of=/dev/null