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On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 09:25 -0400, John Almberg wrote:
> On Aug 11, 2008, at 5:51 PM, Chris Hastie wrote:
> 
> > I have a Dell PowerEdge 860 with SAS 5iR RAID controller and FreeBSD
> > 6.2. The controller is configured for RAID 1. The controller is

See if Dell has populated IPMI SDR data structures with RAID yet.

Dell and LSI/Qlogic really play well together.  No really.  They do.

~BAS

> > recognised as mpt0 and seen as a SCSI device da0. All seems to be
> > working fine, but is there any way to tell if one of the disks fails?
> 
> I was thinking about this same question over the weekend. I have no  
> idea what the answer is, but am hoping someone has one.
>