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Date:      Fri, 16 May 2008 15:29:05 -0500
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To:        Robert Jesacher <jessy@sicha.net>
Cc:        Chris St Denis <chris@smartt.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: AAC driver. No kernel error messages for failed raid5?
Message-ID:  <20080516202904.GJ4461@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <AF4FF84A-5F14-4189-8D2C-1D7A5A5B7EC2@sicha.net>
References:  <4820B502.8000009@smartt.com> <20080506200245.GA4083@sandvine.com> <AF4FF84A-5F14-4189-8D2C-1D7A5A5B7EC2@sicha.net>

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In the last episode (May 16), Robert Jesacher said:
> On 06.05.2008, at 22:02, Ed Maste wrote:
>> On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 12:44:02PM -0700, Chris St Denis wrote:
>>> I pulled out one of the raid5 drives to test the functionality and
>>> noticed that FreeBSD didn't seem to notice the disk failure at all.
>>> I was expecting kernel messages about it, but got nothing.
>> 
>> This is missing functionality in the aac(4) driver.  For now about
>> the best you can do is regularly poll the status using Adaptec's CLI
>> tool "arcconf."
>> 
>> -ED
> 
> The tool you need to look into is: sysutils/aaccli . I think arctool
> is only for arcmsr-devices. unfortunately aaccli doesn't provide the
> possibility to use it with parameters, so you probably need to use it
> with an expect-script.

aaccli is most definitely scriptable:

$ aaccli "open /readonly aac0 : enclosure show status : disk show smart : container list /full"

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com



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