Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 12:53:26 -0800 From: Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@FreeBSD.org> To: John Almberg <jalmberg@identry.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: snmpd strangeness Message-ID: <20081119205326.GA7460@icarus.home.lan> In-Reply-To: <38EB8435-EBD8-463B-9D64-C0E6B849E69E@identry.com> References: <BFDB04F6-6032-4CBE-859A-CB2BEE3A4C4E@identry.com> <20081119164919.GA2347@icarus.home.lan> <EFB2D630-CDB6-4E5C-98BF-5A37A3502D71@identry.com> <20081119172649.GA3139@icarus.home.lan> <A0526D15-3EF3-40E3-9362-F80DE5FF364C@identry.com> <20081119185829.GA4786@icarus.home.lan> <E75530E4-DD9E-4002-B7D0-BBF98EF02208@identry.com> <20081119194853.GA5901@icarus.home.lan> <38EB8435-EBD8-463B-9D64-C0E6B849E69E@identry.com>
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On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 03:47:05PM -0500, John Almberg wrote: >>> The card in the box is a >>> >>> Intel 18E PCI-Express x8 SAS/SATA2 Hardware ROMB RAID with 128MB >>> Memory >>> Module and 72 Hour Battery Backup Cache >>> >>> $625 as shown on the packing list, so I hope it's a good one. >> >> Ah, I think it's hardware RAID, and PCIe to boot. Yes, I would >> recommend keeping that! What does it show up as under FreeBSD? I'm >> curious what driver it uses, and what your disks show up as (daX or >> adX; >> probably daX). > > H'mmm... You are revealing great gaps in my knowledge today, Jeremy. Not > that that's hard to do... > > I've been looking in dmesg.boot and fstab for clues... Not sure if that > is where I should be looking, but I figured there would be mount > messages in dmsg.boot. Unfortunately, there is a whole bunch of stuff in > there I have no clue about. Fascinating reading, though! > > Does mf0/mf1 sound correct? > > If not, how would I find the driver info? Typical line in fstab: > > /dev/mfid0s1a / ufs rw 1 1 That's mfi(4), which is kinda "its own thing" (neither daX nor adX). Still perfectly usable/decent, and Scott Long (as I call him, "famous SCSI guy" ;-) ) wrote the driver, so support for it should be available. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |
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