Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2003 12:05:12 -0600 From: "Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" <chad@shire.net> To: "Micheal Patterson" <micheal@cancercare.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Using a RAID-card with FreeBSD Message-ID: <E45206DC-AD80-11D7-B3D4-003065A70D30@shire.net> In-Reply-To: <004301c3417a$51f7b670$4df24243@tsgincorporated.com>
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On Thursday, Jul 3, 2003, at 09:44 US/Mountain, Micheal Patterson wrote: > > As I recall, that particular system is running an Adaptec 2100S under > FreeBSD 4.8. I've not found any software that can access that > particular > raid directly for configuration from within the running OS. Actually Adaptec has FreeBSD management software for the 2100S. I had/have two machines running 2100S and FreeBSD 4.7 and on one of them I can get the management software to run and on one of them I can't. There is no difference in the machines themselves. But you can download and try the software from the adaptec website. Chad > The only way to > access it that I'm aware of is with the standard Control A at system > startup > to access the on board settings of the card. Here, the raid type can be > configured. I will say that I've had a drive failure on this system > with > little effect on the normal operation of the OS. However, since there > aren't > any hot swappable bays in this particular system (company didn't want > to > spend for them), the system has to be shut down to replace the failed > drive. > However, the system will still boot in diminished mode and continue > this way > until the new drive has been restored. > > -- > > Micheal Patterson > TSG Network Administration > 405-917-0600 > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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