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Date:      Sun, 6 Oct 2002 10:50:40 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com>
To:        "Justin R. Miller" <incanus@codesorcery.net>
Cc:        freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Mylex AcceleRAID 170
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.10210061047550.26106-100000@misery.sdf.com>
In-Reply-To: <20021006145310.GA88299@codesorcery.net>

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On Sun, 6 Oct 2002, Justin R. Miller wrote:

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> Said Tom Samplonius on Sat, Oct 05, 2002 at 01:51:42PM -0700:
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> > If you have an intelligent backplane, the AccelRAID 170 will indeed
> > rebuild automatically.  
> 
> I have a SuperMicro 6040 with the accompanying backplane, which supports
> hotswap.  However, I can't seem to get the two to play nicely together
> (i.e. the RAID card to recognize when a new drive has been inserted and
> begin a rebuild in the OS background) as seems to be the ideal
> situation.  Have you any advice on how to get the card to recognize
> this?  I have pored over the manuals but am coming up empty. 

  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.

> > However, there is no way to query the AccelRAID 170.
> 
> That's ok.  Based on what I've seen, the syslog messages should be
> enough info for my use. 
> 
> Thanks for your help. 
> 
> - -- 
> [!] Justin R. Miller <incanus@codesorcery.net>
>     Encrypted email preferred (key 0xC9C40C31)

Tom


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