From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 16 19:05:26 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org 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 B5ADC16A41F for ; Mon, 16 Jan 2006 19:05:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from vivek@khera.org) Received: from yertle.kcilink.com (yertle.kcilink.com [65.205.34.180]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D93543D46 for ; Mon, 16 Jan 2006 19:05:25 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from vivek@khera.org) Received: from [192.168.7.103] (host-103.int.kcilink.com [192.168.7.103]) by yertle.kcilink.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BA7BB864 for ; Mon, 16 Jan 2006 14:05:21 -0500 (EST) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v746.2) In-Reply-To: <20060114113652.GA990@tuatara.fishballoon.org> References: <20060106233857.GA997@tuatara.fishballoon.org> <200601130041.k0D0fHOg032877@ambrisko.com> <20060114113652.GA990@tuatara.fishballoon.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <39B20C88-5657-4561-8639-75735A9BCA60@khera.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Vivek Khera Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 14:05:20 -0500 To: freebsd-stable X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.746.2) Subject: Re: 6.0 on Dell 1850 with PERC4e/DC RAID? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 19:05:26 -0000 On Jan 14, 2006, at 6:36 AM, Scott Mitchell wrote: > I was actually referring to Doug White, who said: > >> From what I remember, you will receive status-change kernel >> messages when >> disks disappear, rebuilds start, and so forth. So for most day-to-day >> manipulation you should be fine. > > It wasn't clear if this applied to the amr(4)-based PERC cards or > just the > aac(4) ones. > > Sounds like the re-worked amr driver will be very much better, at > least > once a few more bugs have been ironed out of it. From my experience, the amr driver does not issue warnings of any sort that show up on the console or in log files. The aac driver is more chatty -- I see log file lines about the battery being recharged, etc. I've never had a drive failure on any box in which I have an aac driven card, so can't speak to that but I'd bet $1 that it would log it. The amr driver doesn't log drive failures -- one must run some utility to probe it.