From owner-freebsd-scsi Wed Oct 9 8:24:42 2002 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 DF0AF37B401 for ; Wed, 9 Oct 2002 08:24:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from misery.sdf.com (misery.sdf.com [207.200.153.226]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4903143E6A for ; Wed, 9 Oct 2002 08:24:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tom@sdf.com) Received: from tom (helo=localhost) by misery.sdf.com with local-esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 17zHgC-0006u9-00; Wed, 9 Oct 2002 07:19:16 -0700 Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2002 07:19:14 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom Samplonius To: John David Duncan Cc: "Justin R. Miller" , freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mylex AcceleRAID 170 In-Reply-To: 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 The AccelRADIUS 170 will manage the SAF-TE device for you, and hide it from FreeBSD. The AccelRAID needs to see the mesages from the SAF-TE device so it can initiate auto-rebuild. FreeBSD has nothing to do with that process. Tom On Wed, 9 Oct 2002, John David Duncan wrote: > > I'd like to summarize this for my own benefit. Take for example a machine > with a hot-swapable backplane and no external enclosure. Is it correct > to say that hotswap is only fully supported when both of the following > are true? > > * The SCSI controller reports a SAF-TE device on the bus > * The ses device is configured into the kernel > > - JD > > > > > Does the RAID card see the SAF-TE device on your backplane? Does your > > backplane even support SAF-TE? A SAF-TE appears as a processor device on > > a hopefully configurable SCSI id. I use IBM eSeries x340s and x330s > > without any problem. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message