Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 15:48:44 -0500 (EST) From: spork <spork@super-g.com> To: Mark Conway Wirt <mark@intrepid.net> Cc: Grant Beckerleg <grant@vbc.net>, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DPT's Storage Manager and FreeBSD Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.00.9902181547120.3866-100000@super-g.inch.com> In-Reply-To: <19990218111657.A2374@intrepid.net>
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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...
Charles
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On Thu, 18 Feb 1999, Mark Conway Wirt wrote:
>
>
>
> We use the DPT on a linux box. We don't have any DOS partitions --
> just make a DOS boot floppy. When you need to access the storage
> manager, boot from the floppy and put the storage manager disk in.
> It's a bit of a hassle that you can't access storage manager without
> bringing the machine down, but you will on;y need to do that
> *very* infrequently...
>
> --Mark
>
> On Thu, Feb 18, 1999 at 09:13:01AM -0000, Grant Beckerleg wrote:
> > Hello there,
> > Can anyone shed any light on the following
> > situation?
> >
> > I am in the process of experimenting with RAID and have built a
> > machine using a DPT 3334UW RAID controller and running FreeBSD3.0.
> > This DPT product comes with software, for building and managing RAID
> > array configurations, called Storage Manager.
> >
> > This software is not supplied with FreeBSD in mind and DPT's manual
> > suggests that a dos partition is used as the home of this software.
> >
> > We do not want FreeBSD3.0 running on top of dos.
> >
> > Has anyone had experience of this situation/software?
> >
> > As I am very new to FreeBSD I would be very happy if someone could
> > point me in the right direction.
> >
> > Rgds.
> >
> > Grant Beckerleg VBCnet GB Ltd http://www.vbc.net
> > tel +44 117 929 1316 fax +44 117 927 2015
> >
> >
> >
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