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Subject: Re: ciss(4) driver in FreeBSD 6.x ...
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Sascha Holzleiter wrote:
> do you know of any method to monitor these controllers with FreeBSD,
> e.g. to detect drive failures?
>
>   
No, but the code is in the driver and can be easily adapted to a 
userland program to probe the controller through the ioctl interface, 
but the easiest way is to just have something monitor syslog.