Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 08:37:48 -0500 (EST) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" <mdodd@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Dima Dorfman <dd@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ida(4) driver: Compaq Smart Array users wanted. Message-ID: <20040218083404.M87859@sasami.jurai.net> In-Reply-To: <20040218085444.GK13673@trit.org> References: <20040115022720.G90982@sasami.jurai.net> <20040218085444.GK13673@trit.org>
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On Wed, 18 Feb 2004, Dima Dorfman wrote: > "show controller" (above) and "show logical" work without a hitch, but > "show physical" displays about 30 lines like this: > > ida0: soft error This isn't a problem; the driver doesn't know that some commands return an error status when they can't operate on the supplied parameters. > I don't have a "failed" drive, but removing and inserting one drive of > a RAID 1 logical drive mostly worked okay. After removing it, the > kernel kept spewing "ida0: soft write error", but these seemed to be > harmless, and inserting the drive back in correctly put the logical > drive in a reviving state. The 'soft write error' is just the controllers way of informing you that its writing to a degraded volume. In an ideal world the driver would trap these soft error messages, rate limit them, and actually look up which drive in the volume was bad and occasionally print an informative error message with that info. -- 10 40 80 C0 00 FF FF FF FF C0 00 00 00 00 10 AA AA 03 00 00 00 08 00
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