From owner-freebsd-scsi Mon Dec 13 22:35: 5 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from misery.sdf.com (misery.sdf.com [204.244.213.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1583F1554E; Mon, 13 Dec 1999 22:34:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tom@sdf.com) Received: from tom (helo=localhost) by misery.sdf.com with local-esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 11xk1K-0001Ur-00; Mon, 13 Dec 1999 20:57:06 -0800 Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1999 20:57:06 -0800 (PST) From: Tom To: Mike Smith Cc: freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Again: CRD-Raid-Controller and FreeBSD 3.x In-Reply-To: <199912140630.WAA00978@mass.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 13 Dec 1999, Mike Smith wrote: > > - No online configuration yet. Each controller brand needs it own > > management app ported to FreeBSD. An external card usually has a nice LCD > > display. I can even hookup new drives and configure a new logical disk, > > or expand an existing logical disk with a couple of button presses (at > > least on Infortrend). > > Actually, all the internal controllers (bar a couple of very old Mylex > units) have much nicer interfaces in their BIOS code. I'll take a > fullscreen app over trying to build my spanned array with three > pushbuttons and a 40x2 LCD. 8) BIOS? That means the server is down. I'm talking about _online_. If the LCD is too small, use a full screen VT100/ANSI interface via a serial port. Again, while the controller and server are online. The Infortrend controller can even be configured to run PPP on the serial port, so you can plug it into a host port, or into a term server and telnet direct to the controler. I love playing the "which disk is dead" game when a DPT RAID controller's audible alarm is sounding, but I have to boot into the management interface to figure out which one. > -- > \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith > \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org > \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message