Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 16:04:22 -0400 (EDT) From: Charles Owens <owensc@enc.edu> To: Simon Shapiro <shimon@simon-shapiro.org> Cc: freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: DPT management binaries for FreeBSD? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980818154628.3182I-100000@itsdsv2.enc.edu> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.980815000704.shimon@simon-shapiro.org>
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On Sat, 15 Aug 1998, Simon Shapiro wrote: > > On 13-Aug-98 Charles Owens wrote: > > Simon, > > > > I looked under ftp://ftp.simon-shapiro.org/crash/tools and noted > > a number of FreeBSD binaries with names like "dtp_dm". Could this per > > chance be the native mgmt software that Tom is talking about below? > > > > If so, do I need a /dev/dpt? How can a make one (/dev/MAKEDEV doesn't > > know anything about it, of course)? > > These will not work in 2.2, only in 3.0-current; Too much retrofitting for > what is considered a stable version of the O/S. Okay then, two questions: 1. Without these tools is there any way for me, with a 2.2-stable system to: * determine array status (e.g. "drive 3 has failed") * issue basic commands like "rebuild array" or "make drive X a hot spare." I'm mostly interested in being able to fully recover from a single drive failure without having to reboot and run the DOS Storage Manager. ... and no, I don't have DPT drives and enclosures (grrr...) which I understand would take care of this for me. 2. Would you consider 3.0-current generally stable enough for me to use for a large storage system? (about 52 GB usable space, 4 RAID-5 arrays ccd'd together, as you suggested) It will be doing little other than serving up this disk space to a handfull of other FreeBSD boxes via NFSv2. If I did use 3.0-current, will these tools from your ftp site allow me to do what I describe above? Thanks much, --- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Charles N. Owens Email: owensc@enc.edu http://www.enc.edu/~owensc Network & Systems Administrator Information Technology Services "Outside of a dog, a book is a man's Eastern Nazarene College best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read." - Groucho Marx ------------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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