Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 11:15:53 +0100 (CET) From: "Hartmann, O." <ohartman@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: AMI Enterprise 1600 RAID controller Message-ID: <20030203110536.O35913@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de>
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Dear Sirs. We use now for two years a AMI EnterpriseRAID 1600 controler for our RAID volume with no problems (8x 36GB IBM DDYS drives, one HOTSPARE). Last night one of these disks died and the AMI controler begun rebuilding the RAID on the defined HOTSPARE. In the meanwhile its job is done and I replaced the defective drive by a new ICL type from IBM (DDYS drives are outdated) with the same capacity. Since the crash occured, the controler's buzzer is disturbing the environment with a loud sound. I have two questions. Because of the alarm noise I miss a utility to control the RAID controler. I checked the error logs and I found no error message, that something went wrong with the RAID. FreeBSD seems to lack in some suitable facilities to get error reports? In this way, I wish to reconfigure the RAID. I exchanged the faulty harddrive but I do not know wether this is now marked as the HOTSPARE automaticaly. The only way to test this is to move out one of the good drives out of the SCA cabinett and watch what is happening. Or rebooting the machine and take a look into its BIOS, but at the moment it's impossible to reboot the machine or take it down for service. How can an administrator get information how the RAID is configured and how can the admin reconfigure the RAID (declare a new exchanged drive as the spare etc.) from FreeBSD? Thanks for your help. Oliver -- MfG O. Hartmann ohartman@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de ------------------------------------------------------------------ IT-Administration des Institutes fuer Physik der Atmosphaere (IPA) ------------------------------------------------------------------ Johannes Gutenberg Universitaet Mainz Becherweg 21 55099 Mainz Tel: +496131/3924662 (Maschinenraum) Tel: +496131/3924144 (Buero) FAX: +496131/3923532 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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