so, long story short, my white label drives do not have the serial number printed on the label. i had to come up with a way to determine the bad drive given very little help from the GUI (not its fault). this can be done in some capacity on any hardware but if you have LSI hardware you will want to add sas2ircu. free download from brodcom, copy the 1 freebsd file to freenas and profit.
sas2ircu list will list controllers
sas2ircu 0 display where 0 is the card number so you might have 1 or 2 or 12 etc. this gets info like this
get the serial number from the FreeNAS GUI.
using that you can find the location and then use the command
sas2ircu 1 locate 1:3 ON
to activate the LED or OFF to deactivate the LED (NOTE: i must be missing a backplane cable so this did not work for me, ther is an option 2)
option 2, you now know EVERYTHING except the actual physical location of the drive, well diskinfo too the rescue, it is built in to freebsd and when it does a read it will activate the light on the failing drive no matter what (it will attempt to read any drive the has power, if your drive has failed and does not have power surely you found it much more easily) so after you know the drive location do "diskinfo -ctv 'drive'" and it will forcibly kick the light on long enough for you to walk over and find the bad drive.
ENJOY
sas2ircu list will list controllers
sas2ircu 0 display where 0 is the card number so you might have 1 or 2 or 12 etc. this gets info like this
get the serial number from the FreeNAS GUI.
Code:
LSI Corporation SAS2 IR Configuration Utility. Version 20.00.00.00 (2014.09.18) Copyright (c) 2008-2014 LSI Corporation. All rights reserved. Read configuration has been initiated for controller 0 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Controller information ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Controller type : SAS2008 BIOS version : 0.00.00.00 Firmware version : 20.00.07.00 Channel description : 1 Serial Attached SCSI Initiator ID : 0 Maximum physical devices : 255 Concurrent commands supported : 3432 Slot : Unknown Segment : 0 Bus : 1 Device : 0 Function : 0 RAID Support : No ------------------------------------------------------------------------ IR Volume information ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Physical device information ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Initiator at ID #0 Device is a Hard disk Enclosure # : 1 Slot # : 0 SAS Address : 4433221-1-0300-0000 State : Ready (RDY) Size (in MB)/(in sectors) : 2861588/5860533167 Manufacturer : ATA Model Number : WL3000GSA6472E Firmware Revision : D1K4 Serial No : WOL240309179 GUID : N/A Protocol : SATA Drive Type : SATA_HDD Device is a Hard disk Enclosure # : 1 Slot # : 1 SAS Address : 4433221-1-0200-0000 State : Ready (RDY) Size (in MB)/(in sectors) : 3052360/6251233967 Manufacturer : ATA Model Number : WL3000GSA6472E Firmware Revision : 2E.J Serial No : WOL240298896 GUID : N/A Protocol : SATA Drive Type : SATA_HDD Device is a Hard disk Enclosure # : 1 Slot # : 2 SAS Address : 4433221-1-0100-0000 State : Ready (RDY) Size (in MB)/(in sectors) : 3052360/6251233967 Manufacturer : ATA Model Number : WL3000GSA6472E Firmware Revision : 2E.J Serial No : WOL240298895 GUID : N/A Protocol : SATA Drive Type : SATA_HDD Device is a Hard disk Enclosure # : 1 Slot # : 4 SAS Address : 4433221-1-0700-0000 State : Ready (RDY) Size (in MB)/(in sectors) : 2861588/5860533167 Manufacturer : ATA Model Number : WL3000GSA6472E Firmware Revision : D1K4 Serial No : WOL240309210 GUID : N/A Protocol : SATA Drive Type : SATA_HDD Device is a Hard disk Enclosure # : 1 Slot # : 5 SAS Address : 4433221-1-0600-0000 State : Ready (RDY) Size (in MB)/(in sectors) : 2861588/5860533167 Manufacturer : ATA Model Number : WL3000GSA6472E Firmware Revision : D1K4 Serial No : WOL240309208 GUID : N/A Protocol : SATA Drive Type : SATA_HDD Device is a Hard disk Enclosure # : 1 Slot # : 6 SAS Address : 4433221-1-0500-0000 State : Ready (RDY) Size (in MB)/(in sectors) : 2861588/5860533167 Manufacturer : ATA Model Number : WL3000GSA6472E Firmware Revision : D1K4 Serial No : WOL240309181 GUID : N/A Protocol : SATA Drive Type : SATA_HDD Device is a Hard disk Enclosure # : 1 Slot # : 7 SAS Address : 4433221-1-0400-0000 State : Ready (RDY) Size (in MB)/(in sectors) : 2861588/5860533167 Manufacturer : ATA Model Number : ST3000DM001-9YN1 Firmware Revision : CC4H Serial No : Z1F2Z594 GUID : N/A Protocol : SATA Drive Type : SATA_HDD ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Enclosure information ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Enclosure# : 1 Logical ID : 5d4ae520:b3249800 Numslots : 8 StartSlot : 0 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SAS2IRCU: Command DISPLAY Completed Successfully. SAS2IRCU: Utility Completed Successfully.
using that you can find the location and then use the command
sas2ircu 1 locate 1:3 ON
to activate the LED or OFF to deactivate the LED (NOTE: i must be missing a backplane cable so this did not work for me, ther is an option 2)
option 2, you now know EVERYTHING except the actual physical location of the drive, well diskinfo too the rescue, it is built in to freebsd and when it does a read it will activate the light on the failing drive no matter what (it will attempt to read any drive the has power, if your drive has failed and does not have power surely you found it much more easily) so after you know the drive location do "diskinfo -ctv 'drive'" and it will forcibly kick the light on long enough for you to walk over and find the bad drive.
ENJOY
