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Date:      Sun, 16 Jan 2000 19:47:02 -0600 (CST)
From:      Chris Dillon <cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us>
To:        Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: looking for victims, err, uh, 'volunteers'
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.20.0001161935570.62968-100000@mail.wolves.k12.mo.us>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10001161639070.2357-100000@semuta.feral.com>

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On Sun, 16 Jan 2000, Matthew Jacob wrote:

> 
> > 
> > I've got a Compaq Proliant 3000 with three drives in a hot-plug
> > chassis that I was told by someone else a while back (you?) speak
> > SAF-TE.  Unfortunately, I'm running -STABLE on that box.  If this
> > would happen to work with -STABLE,
> 
> If all goes well, I'll do a MFC next week or so.

OK.  I'll go ahead and replace the disk for now.

> >                                     I just _happen_ to have a disk that
> > is giving me fits (medium errors resulting in unrecoverable read
> > errors) and am about to go in tomorrow to swap it with another disk.  
> > Since the disk wasn't really doing anything too terribly important
> > (holding one-third of my Squid cache, /usr/obj, and a copy of the
> > FreeBSD CVS repository), I can hold off replacing it for a while if it
> > needs to be used as a test subject.
> 
> 
> This would not likely be seen as an Environmental Services issue- this is
> already being reported via the SCSI Direct Access (da) driver. In fact, one of
> the big lacks of SES/SAF-TE is the difficulty in correlating errors from
> entities within a box and errors reported by the box.
> 
> SES/SAF-TE is more for disk boxes, etc.. For example, on quarm I have a Sun
> A5000 on a fibre channel loop:

Hmm... I guess I was confusing this with the S.M.A.R.T. stuff that is
supposed to give you a kind of pre-emptive warning that bad things are
going to happen (or have happened, rather... i.e. the drive starts
reallocating a bunch of blocks or senses some other kind of internal
problem).  Will what you've done at least allow the nifty "I'm OK" LED
to light up on the hot-swap disk tray like it does on the NT boxen?
*duck* :-)

On a similar note, I guess, how exactly _would_ you query a drive
about its SMART status in FreeBSD?  It would be neat to have the
status LEDs on the drive trays reflect the health of the drive.  If I
read your description of the SAF-TE/SES stuff right, that is what
would be used to twiddle the LED off/on.


-- Chris Dillon - cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us - cdillon@inter-linc.net
   FreeBSD: The fastest and most stable server OS on the planet.
   For Intel x86 and Alpha architectures. ( http://www.freebsd.org )



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