From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Jan 11 15: 0:15 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F29FD37B401 for ; Sat, 11 Jan 2003 15:00:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from magic.adaptec.com (magic.adaptec.com [208.236.45.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 643A743E4A for ; Sat, 11 Jan 2003 15:00:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from scott_long@btc.adaptec.com) Received: from redfish.adaptec.com (redfish.adaptec.com [162.62.50.11]) by magic.adaptec.com (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h0BMxxj16609; Sat, 11 Jan 2003 14:59:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from btc.btc.adaptec.com (btc.btc.adaptec.com [10.100.0.52]) by redfish.adaptec.com (8.8.8+Sun/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA19720; Sat, 11 Jan 2003 14:59:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from btc.adaptec.com (hollin [10.100.253.56]) by btc.btc.adaptec.com (8.8.8+Sun/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA15296; Sat, 11 Jan 2003 15:59:42 -0700 (MST) Message-ID: <3E20A1CF.4070203@btc.adaptec.com> Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2003 15:59:27 -0700 From: Scott Long User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021105 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Hoskins Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Telling AMR controller to rebuild RAID5 through FreeBSD ... References: <20030110122546.X62719-100000@fubar.adept.org> In-Reply-To: <20030110122546.X62719-100000@fubar.adept.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mike Hoskins wrote: > On Fri, 10 Jan 2003, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > >We've just been informed that one of our drives has to be replaced, > but in > >order to do so, the machine has to be rebooted, since they can't initiate > >the rebuild from FreeBSD ... its using one of the MegaRAID > controllers ... > >is this, in fact, correct, or do they just not know how to do it? I'd > >rather have them hot-swap the drive and rebuild it without having to > >shutdown the machine ... > > > This may be related to afaapps*.rpm/afacli. (At least I've ran into this > before. Dell originally released binary drivers to get RH to support the > PERC arrays, and also released afaappss/afacli to interface with the > arrays.) The unofficial Dell PERC/afaapps page is here, > > http://www.domsch.com/linux/ > > This post, > > http://www.geocrawler.com/archives/3/168/2002/2/0/7903628/ > > Indicates afacli will run under Linux emulation, so that may be an option. > (Haven't tried it myself.) > > -- > Mike Hoskins This message is RFC 1855 compliant, > mike@adept.org www.adept.org/pub/rfcs/rfc1855.html > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message The afaapps only work with hardware supported under the aac driver. Also, there is a FreeBSD-native version of the afaapps. If you go to the Adaptec website and look under the software downloads that are available for the 5400S card, there is a package called aaccli.tgz for FreeBSD. This will work with the Dell, Adaptec, and HP flavors of aac hardware. Scott To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message