From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Feb 18 12:49:43 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from super-g.inch.com (super-g.com [207.240.140.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FF35118A2 for ; Thu, 18 Feb 1999 12:49:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from spork@super-g.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by super-g.inch.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with SMTP id PAA05963; Thu, 18 Feb 1999 15:48:44 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 15:48:44 -0500 (EST) From: spork X-Sender: spork@super-g.inch.com To: Mark Conway Wirt Cc: Grant Beckerleg , freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DPT's Storage Manager and FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <19990218111657.A2374@intrepid.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 --- Charles Sprickman spork@super-g.com --- "...there's no idea that's so good you can't ruin it with a few well-placed idiots." 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 > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message