Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 08:50:18 -0700 From: Darren Pilgrim <phi@evilphi.com> To: Gary Palmer <gpalmer@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: 3ware cards [Was: Re: A little story of failed raid5 (3ware 8000 series)] Message-ID: <46D4443A.8010700@evilphi.com> In-Reply-To: <20070828100045.GB970@in-addr.com> References: <9812134.411188026402612.JavaMail.root@ly.sdf.com> <46D00CE1.9@tomjudge.com> <46D1C89B.8070408@evilphi.com> <20070828100045.GB970@in-addr.com>
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Gary Palmer wrote: > Darren Pilgrim wrote: >> Tom Judge wrote: >>> If you use the 3dm2 management interface you can schedule verify and >>> rebuild tasks to run on a regular basis. I think that 7500 series >>> controllers can do this, 9500 and 9550's definitely can. >> >> Actually it's all 7/8/9xxx series cards. The 9xxx series cards also do >> auto-verify so there's no need to schedule the task. > > Sorry, I do not believe that is the case. I have a 8506-4LP and if > I click on Management -> Scheduling in the 3dm web interface it says > > (0x0C:0x0017): Scheduling is not supported on this controller model > > However you might be able to cheat using the tw_cli port to run > the schedules out of cron rather than native on the card I was talking about the verify task, though I now realize that wasn't clear. Some of the older cards do only support tw_sched. The ability to perform data verification and media scans has been present since the 7xxx series. -- Darren Pilgrim
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