From owner-freebsd-scsi Sun Oct 6 11:55:57 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A196937B401 for ; Sun, 6 Oct 2002 11:55:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from misery.sdf.com (misery.sdf.com [207.200.153.226]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B3B343E8A for ; Sun, 6 Oct 2002 11:55:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tom@sdf.com) Received: from tom (helo=localhost) by misery.sdf.com with local-esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 17yFYB-00014B-00; Sun, 6 Oct 2002 10:50:43 -0700 Date: Sun, 6 Oct 2002 10:50:40 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom Samplonius To: "Justin R. Miller" Cc: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mylex AcceleRAID 170 In-Reply-To: <20021006145310.GA88299@codesorcery.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, 6 Oct 2002, Justin R. Miller wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Said Tom Samplonius on Sat, Oct 05, 2002 at 01:51:42PM -0700: > > > If you have an intelligent backplane, the AccelRAID 170 will indeed > > rebuild automatically. > > I have a SuperMicro 6040 with the accompanying backplane, which supports > hotswap. However, I can't seem to get the two to play nicely together > (i.e. the RAID card to recognize when a new drive has been inserted and > begin a rebuild in the OS background) as seems to be the ideal > situation. Have you any advice on how to get the card to recognize > this? I have pored over the manuals but am coming up empty. Does the RAID card see the SAF-TE device on your backplane? Does your backplane even support SAF-TE? A SAF-TE appears as a processor device on a hopefully configurable SCSI id. I use IBM eSeries x340s and x330s without any problem. > > However, there is no way to query the AccelRAID 170. > > That's ok. Based on what I've seen, the syslog messages should be > enough info for my use. > > Thanks for your help. > > - -- > [!] Justin R. Miller > Encrypted email preferred (key 0xC9C40C31) Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message