From owner-freebsd-scsi Tue Aug 18 13:07:43 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA18399 for freebsd-scsi-outgoing; Tue, 18 Aug 1998 13:07:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from itsdsv1.enc.edu (fw1.enc.edu [207.95.42.127]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA18388 for ; Tue, 18 Aug 1998 13:07:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owensc@enc.edu) Received: from itsdsv2.enc.edu (itsdsv2.enc.edu [10.1.1.9]) by itsdsv1.enc.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA11279; Tue, 18 Aug 1998 16:04:22 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 16:04:22 -0400 (EDT) From: Charles Owens To: Simon Shapiro cc: freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: DPT management binaries for FreeBSD? In-Reply-To: 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 Sat, 15 Aug 1998, Simon Shapiro wrote: > > On 13-Aug-98 Charles Owens wrote: > > Simon, > > > > I looked under ftp://ftp.simon-shapiro.org/crash/tools and noted > > a number of FreeBSD binaries with names like "dtp_dm". Could this per > > chance be the native mgmt software that Tom is talking about below? > > > > If so, do I need a /dev/dpt? How can a make one (/dev/MAKEDEV doesn't > > know anything about it, of course)? > > These will not work in 2.2, only in 3.0-current; Too much retrofitting for > what is considered a stable version of the O/S. Okay then, two questions: 1. Without these tools is there any way for me, with a 2.2-stable system to: * determine array status (e.g. "drive 3 has failed") * issue basic commands like "rebuild array" or "make drive X a hot spare." I'm mostly interested in being able to fully recover from a single drive failure without having to reboot and run the DOS Storage Manager. ... and no, I don't have DPT drives and enclosures (grrr...) which I understand would take care of this for me. 2. Would you consider 3.0-current generally stable enough for me to use for a large storage system? (about 52 GB usable space, 4 RAID-5 arrays ccd'd together, as you suggested) It will be doing little other than serving up this disk space to a handfull of other FreeBSD boxes via NFSv2. If I did use 3.0-current, will these tools from your ftp site allow me to do what I describe above? Thanks much, --- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Charles N. Owens Email: owensc@enc.edu http://www.enc.edu/~owensc Network & Systems Administrator Information Technology Services "Outside of a dog, a book is a man's Eastern Nazarene College best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read." - Groucho Marx ------------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message