Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 16:43:01 -0400 From: Mark Conway Wirt <mark@intrepid.net> To: Suresh Rajagopalan <sraja@cinenet.net> Cc: Michael Hartung <hartung@zkom.de>, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RAID-controller / Software Message-ID: <19990720164301.H1910@intrepid.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.96.990720133522.21623B-100000@hermosa.cinenet.net>; from Suresh Rajagopalan on Tue, Jul 20, 1999 at 01:37:29PM -0700 References: <19990720090729.B9345@intrepid.net> <Pine.GSO.3.96.990720133522.21623B-100000@hermosa.cinenet.net>
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On Tue, Jul 20, 1999 at 01:37:29PM -0700, Suresh Rajagopalan wrote: > > The DPT has a dos-based management program that will fit on a floppy. > > You have to boot to dos (from the floppy) to set up the storage. No > > management port required. > > Yes, but you still have no way to look at the status of the array while > the machine is running -- something which is needed -- when a drive > gets hosed you then have to then depend on the beep count (if I > remember right) to identify and replace it. There is a status light on the front of the drive unit that will tell when a drive goes out. The bad thing is that if you have a hot spare it will rebuild it and take the old drive off line, but at that point it turns off the warning light, and you will have to deduce which drive went bad by seeing which doesn't show activity. FreeBSD based tools (at least monitoring) would be very nice indeed... --mark To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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