From owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 24 18:47:14 2005 Return-Path: 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 D96E216A4CE for ; Thu, 24 Mar 2005 18:47:14 +0000 (GMT) Received: from amsfep15-int.chello.nl (nl-ams-slo-l4-01-pip-8.chellonetwork.com [213.46.243.27]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4DDC43D48 for ; Thu, 24 Mar 2005 18:47:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from per.hubinette@cellip.com) Received: from pelle ([80.216.180.42]) by amsfep15-int.chello.nl (InterMail vM.6.01.03.04 201-2131-111-106-20040729) with ESMTP id <20050324184712.LETP2062.amsfep15-int.chello.nl@pelle>; Thu, 24 Mar 2005 19:47:12 +0100 From: "Per Hubinette" To: "'Gary Mulder'" Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 19:47:13 +0100 Message-ID: <003a01c530a1$e4f9c810$2ab4d850@pelle> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2616 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1441 In-Reply-To: <4242C6D5.4090704@infotechfl.com> Importance: Normal cc: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Subject: RE: LSILogic MegaRAID and "camcontrol:cam_lookup_pass:CAMGETPASSTHRU ioctl failed X-BeenThere: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: SCSI subsystem List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 18:47:15 -0000 Hmm, shouldn't it be possible to probe the RAID controller using some code from MegaMonitor or some other module. One just need to get some information during runtime. -Per -----Original Message----- From: Gary Mulder [mailto:gmulder@infotechfl.com] Sent: den 24 mars 2005 14:56 To: Per Hubinette Cc: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: LSILogic MegaRAID and "camcontrol:cam_lookup_pass:CAMGETPASSTHRU ioctl failed Per, This MegaRAID controllers have an audible alarm, which I have turned on on each system we have. Since I have to visit the lab once a day to rotate tapes I will hopefully know if one of the controllers is reporting a failed drive. Additionally FreeBSD will report the array as "degraded" in syslog, but I suspect only if you make FreeBSD probe the RAID controller (i.e. reboot). Please correct me if I am wrong. All round, not a good solution, so I'm moving to Adaptec 2200S controllers which, as Scott says, are well supported under FreeBSD. Gary Per Hubinette wrote: > So if you aren't using MegaMonitor what are you people using to monitor > these RAID controllers are you restarting > the servers and looking at the BIOS information to know that everything > is ok? > > Per