From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Feb 18 16:19:13 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from caladan.tdx.co.uk (caladan.tdx.co.uk [195.188.177.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70D3F11C9D for ; Thu, 18 Feb 1999 16:18:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kpielorz@tdx.co.uk) Received: from tdx.co.uk (lorca-tx.tdx.co.uk [195.188.177.242]) by caladan.tdx.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA22526; Fri, 19 Feb 1999 00:18:40 GMT Message-ID: <36CCADE0.5ABA558F@tdx.co.uk> Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 00:18:40 +0000 From: Karl Pielorz Organization: TDX - The Digital eXchange X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: spork Cc: Mark Conway Wirt , Grant Beckerleg , freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DPT's Storage Manager and FreeBSD References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org spork wrote: > > Is there any way to tell that the DPT has lost a disk without physically > seeing the blinking lights or hearing the piercing siren? I have one of > these about to be shipped out to a colo, and I have no idea how I'm going > to tell if the thing needs attention. > > I suppose I could mount the speaker external and hope it annoys someone > enough that they'll call the number on the cage, but... Or you could tie the bleeper to the Carrier Detect, or some other line on a spare serial or Parallel port... We've toyed with doing that here, but not gotten round to it (and we can hear the bleeper from our offices :) You then run a daemon on the system that checks to see if the connection is high, or low... If you are going to take this route - take care, don't just hook it up :-) - Research first, or you could damage the port / DPT... -Kp To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message