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Subject: Re: monitoring mpt raid arrays
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Thanks for reply

> The problem is that on your box the mpt_raid stuff isn't working because it 
> probes for the RAID metadata too early, so you don't get any of the raid 
> messages.
> 

so if i unplug one disk while running (it's supposed to deal with that i 
guess) then i will never get appropriate output on dmesg, because..the 
machine will fall over first and wipe dmesg..or because the driver fails 
to detect the "diff in state of controller status values"?



Oliver