From owner-freebsd-scsi Sun May 19 11:36:12 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from misery.sdf.com (misery.sdf.com [207.200.153.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3703937B405 for ; Sun, 19 May 2002 11:36:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tom (helo=localhost) by misery.sdf.com with local-esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 179Uh4-0003RC-00; Sun, 19 May 2002 10:42:06 -0700 Date: Sun, 19 May 2002 10:42:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom Samplonius To: Patrick Thomas Cc: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how do I know when RAID fails ? (mylex, PERC, etc) In-Reply-To: <20020518192557.V44320-100000@utility.clubscholarship.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, 18 May 2002, Patrick Thomas wrote: > Well...hot yanking drives bothers me - when they are expensive drives, and > the possibility exists of killing the drive by yanking it (a drive that is > otherwise healthy) I am reluctant to do this just to test. Well, if the drives dies during a hotswap out, it can't be that good of a drive to begin with. If the warranty is already over, and potential replacement is a concern, they are definitely not expensive. I love those 5 year warranties. > What about PERC ? Do _all_ the raid drivers have a facility to log to > syslog when bad things happen, or is it dependent on the particular driver > ? There are many PERC cards. What driver is it using? What does that driver's manpage say? > --pt Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message