On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 5:51 PM, Giovanni Tirloni <gtirl...@sysdroid.com> wrote:
> On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 3:38 PM, Giovanni Tirloni <gtirl...@sysdroid.com> 
> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>>  We are migrating from a MegaRAID solution (mega_sas driver) to using
>> LSI 9211-4i HBAs (mpt_sas driver) and a common operation was to use
>> the MegaCli command to turn a LED on so the datacenter staff could
>> know which drive we wanted to replace.
>>
>>  Is there anything like that for the mpt_sas driver ? The HBA is
>> connected to a SAS expander (LSI SASX36). The OS is OpenSolaris b134.
>>
>>  Also, the device names changed from cXtXd0 to cXtXXXXXd0 which makes
>> it harder to know which physical slot we are talking about. Any way to
>> turn it back to the old naming convention or at least map the name to
>> a physical slot ?
>
> After much searching around I found the sas2ircu command.
>
> http://www.supermicro.com/support/faqs/results.cfm?id=84
> http://www.natecarlson.com/2010/05/07/review-supermicros-sc847a-4u-chassis-with-36-drive-bays/

Replying to myself again, sorry.

In case anyone wants to understand how the device names works, see
this excellent presentation:

http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/~jmcp/WhatIsAGuid.pdf

-- 
Giovanni
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