Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 12:16:17 -0400 From: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org> To: Jim Pingle <lists@pingle.org>, Willem Jan Withagen <wjw@withagen.nl> Cc: stable@freebsd.org, obrien@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Adaptec 2100, asr driver Message-ID: <CCA9077321BFFCB7B7CCF3BA@ganymede.hub.org> In-Reply-To: <458034A7.6010106@pingle.org> References: <457E9222.2090406@withagen.nl> <458034A7.6010106@pingle.org>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - --On Wednesday, December 13, 2006 12:13:11 -0500 Jim Pingle <lists@pingle.org> wrote: > Willem Jan Withagen wrote: >> So the 1000$ question: is there any chance of getting at least the state >> of the RAID and its disk out into the open? It shure would give me a >> much better feeling, knowing that at least serious trouble would be >> detected by me. Instead of getting this call from a NOC. > > It works fine here. I use this on systems with 2100s, and with 2010s. > > cd /usr/ports/sysutils/asr-utils; make install clean > > Make sure it installs compat4x, it should as it is listed as a dependency. > > Add this to /etc/rc.conf: > compat4x_enable="YES" > > add "options ASR_COMPAT" to your kernel and rebuild the kernel > > Reboot. That's it. > > You can use "raidutil -A off" to silence the alarm once it is active. As > well as checking the drives with "raidutil -L all". You can get more/less > detail, just check the command line options. This kind of information (ie. options ASR_COMPAT) would be good to add to the pkg_message for ports like this ... same thing trip'd me up the other day, and someone let me know about it ... - ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email . scrappy@hub.org MSN . scrappy@hub.org Yahoo . yscrappy Skype: hub.org ICQ . 7615664 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFFgXjR4QvfyHIvDvMRAp3kAKCg+0RCFcRWxyrLCOZuYeP9F0sFJwCguRYe 3VQJAG6L0H0g/pCPyadawaw= =7b7v -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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