From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 16 20:01:25 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE515106570F for ; Fri, 16 May 2008 20:01:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jessy@sicha.net) Received: from viefep33-int.chello.at (viefep18-int.chello.at [213.46.255.22]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C6828FC1B for ; Fri, 16 May 2008 20:01:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jessy@sicha.net) Received: from du.sicha.net ([84.113.235.172]) by viefep31-int.chello.at (InterMail vM.7.08.02.02 201-2186-121-104-20070414) with ESMTP id <20080516194531.KKGP21163.viefep31-int.chello.at@du.sicha.net>; Fri, 16 May 2008 21:45:31 +0200 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at sicha.net Message-Id: From: Robert Jesacher To: Chris St Denis In-Reply-To: <20080506200245.GA4083@sandvine.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v919.2) Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 21:45:23 +0200 References: <4820B502.8000009@smartt.com> <20080506200245.GA4083@sandvine.com> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.919.2) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: AAC driver. No kernel error messages for failed raid5? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 20:01:26 -0000 On 06.05.2008, at 22:02, Ed Maste wrote: > On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 12:44:02PM -0700, Chris St Denis wrote: > >> I pulled out one of the raid5 drives to test the functionality and >> noticed that FreeBSD didn't seem to notice the disk failure at all. I >> was expecting kernel messages about it, but got nothing. > > This is missing functionality in the aac(4) driver. For now about > the best you can do is regularly poll the status using Adaptec's CLI > tool "arcconf." > > -ED The tool you need to look into is: sysutils/aaccli . I think arctool is only for arcmsr-devices. unfortunately aaccli doesn't provide the possibility to use it with parameters, so you probably need to use it with an expect-script. On the adaptec 2410SA I activated the "alarm" feature in the controller bios, which helps me, because its a home server but this will not help you if your server is sitting somewhere else. Because of this limitation (and a few other things with the controller) I'm certainly looking for an other solution. In my case a ZFS-based software RAID will suffice, but this might not be desirable for you. Take care & good luck, Robert