From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 28 15:50:19 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5208816A420 for ; Tue, 28 Aug 2007 15:50:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from phi@evilphi.com) Received: from mail.twinthornes.com (mail.twinthornes.com [65.75.198.147]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A14B13C49D for ; Tue, 28 Aug 2007 15:50:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from phi@evilphi.com) Received: from [10.9.70.100] (pool-71-117-232-141.ptldor.fios.verizon.net [71.117.232.141]) by mail.twinthornes.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1EDD6845; Tue, 28 Aug 2007 08:50:17 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <46D4443A.8010700@evilphi.com> Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 08:50:18 -0700 From: Darren Pilgrim User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Windows/20070728) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gary Palmer References: <9812134.411188026402612.JavaMail.root@ly.sdf.com> <46D00CE1.9@tomjudge.com> <46D1C89B.8070408@evilphi.com> <20070828100045.GB970@in-addr.com> In-Reply-To: <20070828100045.GB970@in-addr.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: 3ware cards [Was: Re: A little story of failed raid5 (3ware 8000 series)] X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 15:50:19 -0000 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