From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 24 17:38:29 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 5279916A418 for ; Fri, 24 Aug 2007 17:38:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Received: from pooker.samsco.org (pooker.samsco.org [168.103.85.57]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C3F913C45A for ; Fri, 24 Aug 2007 17:38:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Received: from phobos.samsco.home (phobos.samsco.home [192.168.254.11]) (authenticated bits=0) by pooker.samsco.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l7OHcHcZ095593; Fri, 24 Aug 2007 11:38:20 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Message-ID: <46CF1789.4060105@samsco.org> Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 11:38:17 -0600 From: Scott Long User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070802 SeaMonkey/1.1.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Feargal Reilly References: <02fe01c7e3af$d3b86ed0$0c00a8c0@Artem> <20070824095702.6fe7ee3c@mablung.edhellond.fbi.ie> In-Reply-To: <20070824095702.6fe7ee3c@mablung.edhellond.fbi.ie> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH authentication, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.0.2 (pooker.samsco.org [168.103.85.57]); Fri, 24 Aug 2007 11:38:20 -0600 (MDT) X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.4 required=5.5 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=failed version=3.1.8 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.8 (2007-02-13) on pooker.samsco.org Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: 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: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 17:38:29 -0000 Feargal Reilly wrote: > On Tue, 21 Aug 2007 08:57:22 +0400 > "Artem Kuchin" wrote: > >> Um.. it is because i did not have a map of hot swap baskets to >> conroller ports and i needed to check every driver basket to >> understand which port it sits on. I have no choise, i think. >> > > I'm just going to highlight the importance of knowing which > physical disk is which on your system. > > About a year ago I had to replace a hot-swappable disk from an > array, but then realised I had no idea which physical disk it > was as the map of the disks was rather helpfully *inside* the > case. Due to the physical setup, I had no way or removing the > cover without first powering down the server - which defeated > the whole point of paying extra for hot-swap disks. > > So yeah, be sure to label your disk bays, but be sure to put > those labels somewhere *useful*. > > -fr. > Most controllers have a function to "blink LED" so you can discover the mapping. Just about every management app that I know of does (yes, they do exist for FreeBSD from many vendors!), and many also have the feature in their BIOS. Scott