From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 19 21:27:03 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D79D16A418 for ; Tue, 19 Feb 2008 21:27:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhary@unsane.co.uk) Received: from unsane.co.uk (unknown [IPv6:2001:470:1f08:110::2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBB2C13C459 for ; Tue, 19 Feb 2008 21:27:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhary@unsane.co.uk) Received: from shrimp.unsane.co.uk ([10.0.0.178]) (authenticated bits=0) by unsane.co.uk (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id m1JLSBpE034227 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 19 Feb 2008 21:28:13 GMT (envelope-from jhary@unsane.co.uk) Message-ID: <47BB49A3.4090206@unsane.co.uk> Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 21:26:59 +0000 From: Vince User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20071007) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jesse Sheidlower References: <20080219192701.GA28728@panix.com> In-Reply-To: <20080219192701.GA28728@panix.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hardware RAID diagnostics (Dell PERC 6/i) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 21:27:03 -0000 Jesse Sheidlower wrote: > I'm in the process of getting a new server, and have been > planning on a Dell PowerEdge 1950. > > I see from this thread: > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2008-January/039675.html > > That the PERC 6/i RAID controller seems to work fine with the > mfi(4) driver; I was planning on a 4 x 73GB RAID5 setup, so > the problems about addressing > 1TB don't seem to apply. > > My straightforward question is just wondering about how you > get diagnostics from this device. My server will be in a > remote location, so I'm curious how I would even know if a > disk has failed. There wasn't anything about this in the > mfi(4) manpage, nor in the RAID section of the Handbook. I've no experience of the 6/i but have a look at the results given by cd /usr/ports make search key=megaraid The megarc util certainly worked on older LSI megaraid controllers and I've used the linux megarc util on recent megaraid sas controllers (MegaRAID SAS 8708ELP) under centos linux Vince > > My current server is in a 2 x 18GB RAID1 setup, but I pretty > much plugged it in and it Just Worked, and I never thought > about it any more; this time I'd like to know more about how > to manage it. > > Thanks. > > Jesse Sheidlower > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"