From owner-freebsd-scsi Mon Dec 13 22:45: 7 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 E666415571; Mon, 13 Dec 1999 22:45:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tom@sdf.com) Received: from tom (helo=localhost) by misery.sdf.com with local-esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 11xkBG-0001Vi-00; Mon, 13 Dec 1999 21:07:22 -0800 Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1999 21:07:22 -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: <199912140644.WAA01069@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: > > > 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_. > > There you've got me. But not for too long. 8) > > > 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. > > This is what managed enclosures are for. Huh? And how is that supposed to work? I use SAF-TE enclosures. Unless I can access the RAID management app, how can I access that info? That certainly isn't possible with a DPT controller. Besides, SAF-TE can tell what disks are plugged in, not which ones actually work. > -- > \\ 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