From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 22 14:26:55 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6311316A41C for ; Wed, 22 Jun 2005 14:26:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@as9105.com) Received: from sickle.as9105.com (sickle.as9105.com [212.139.129.152]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B579643D48 for ; Wed, 22 Jun 2005 14:26:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@as9105.com) Received: (qmail 17972 invoked by uid 30010); 22 Jun 2005 14:26:53 -0000 Received: from freebsd@as9105.com by sickle.as9105.com by uid 89 with qmail-scanner-1.22 (clamscan: 0.75.1. spamassassin: 2.64. Clear:RC:1(212.74.112.53):. Processed in 1.404085 secs); 22 Jun 2005 14:26:53 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO d2) (postmaster@as9105.com@212.74.112.53) by sickle.as9105.com with SMTP; 22 Jun 2005 14:26:52 -0000 From: "Danny Cooper" To: "'Alex Zbyslaw'" , Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 15:26:47 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook, Build 11.0.6353 In-Reply-To: <42B96C61.9080800@dial.pipex.com> Thread-Index: AcV3MT/0Fe/5gMsjQ9GWypdeRLuRSgABM4pg X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2527 X-Qmail-Scanner-Message-ID: <111945041267217966@sickle.as9105.com> Message-Id: <20050622142654.B579643D48@mx1.FreeBSD.org> Cc: Subject: RE: Dell PowerEge 2850 and RAID X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 14:26:55 -0000 We have the PE2850 with PERC 4e/Di controller but this can not be monitored through FreeBSD, I am currently looking at a Drac4 to send traps out to another server for monitoring purposes. Danny -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Alex Zbyslaw Sent: 22 June 2005 14:49 To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Dell PowerEge 2850 and RAID I'd really like to get some concrete information about RAID management under FreeBSD/i386 (5.4) on a Dell PowerEdge 2850. I don't have this machine, but it is looking very likely that a client will be getting one and I'd like to have positive things to say about running FreeBSD on it. My major concern is how to monitor the RAID status without resorting to looking at the LEDs flash on the disks (*). Ideally, I'd like to be able to run something from a cron job which told me that everything was OK. If errors were logged to /var/log/messages or similar, that would be a nice plus. As far as I can tell, the machine could have either an LSI 53C1030 controller or a Dell PERC 4e/Di controller. For the LSI I can see that it is supported by the mtp driver, but can find nothing else. For the Dell PERC 4e/Di (a different LSI, I believe) it seems to be supported by the amr driver and I have found various references out there to these working under FreeBSD, but nothing specifically about monitoring the RAID. If anyone can provide some concrete information, I'd be grateful. I have also explored the Dell and LSI sites, but neither appear to let you browse their downloads unless you are a registered customer. Thanks, --Alex (*) For a short saga on a RAID which didn't, and no-one knew about it, see http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2005-June/090786.html _______________________________________________ freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hardware-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"