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Date:      Wed, 9 Oct 2002 07:19:14 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com>
To:        John David Duncan <jdd@greatschools.net>
Cc:        "Justin R. Miller" <incanus@codesorcery.net>, freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Mylex AcceleRAID 170
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.10210090718020.5111-100000@misery.sdf.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSX.4.44.0210090742530.387-100000@cube>

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  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.
> 
> 
> 


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