From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 3 11:05:20 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 809A437B401 for ; Thu, 3 Jul 2003 11:05:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hobbiton.shire.net (hobbiton.shire.net [206.71.64.250]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D555343FFD for ; Thu, 3 Jul 2003 11:05:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chad@shire.net) Received: from [67.164.197.193] (helo=shire.net) by hobbiton.shire.net with asmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.10) id 19Y8SM-000Oro-00; Thu, 03 Jul 2003 12:05:18 -0600 Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2003 12:05:12 -0600 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v552) To: "Micheal Patterson" From: "Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" In-Reply-To: <004301c3417a$51f7b670$4df24243@tsgincorporated.com> Message-Id: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.552) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-6.0 required=5.4 tests=BAYES_10,EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT, REPLY_WITH_QUOTES,USER_AGENT_APPLEMAIL version=2.55 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.55 (1.174.2.19-2003-05-19-exp) cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Using a RAID-card with FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2003 18:05:20 -0000 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"