From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 9 13: 4:19 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from proteus.eclipse.net.uk (proteus.eclipse.net.uk [195.188.32.118]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE81B1543A; Mon, 9 Aug 1999 13:04:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from stuart@eclipse.net.uk) Received: from eclipse.net.uk (elara.eclipse.net.uk [195.188.32.31]) by proteus.eclipse.net.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id DFEE79B05; Mon, 9 Aug 1999 21:01:49 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <37AF3420.370FB158@eclipse.net.uk> Date: Mon, 09 Aug 1999 21:03:44 +0100 From: Stuart Henderson Organization: Eclipse Networking Ltd. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en-GB MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Kenneth D. Merry" Cc: Mike Tancsa , scsi@FreeBSD.ORG, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: External RAID boxes (was Re: AHC errors. Bad disk or bad firmware, or bug in driver ?) References: <199908091904.NAA29799@panzer.kdm.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Other folks have had success with Mylex controllers, and it might be > worthwhile going with one of those, along with some nice high-end drives. Based on what I found in raid.pdf, I think it might be worth asking Legacy if they use raid controllers made by Mylex in their arrays. A lot of RAID kit is oem'd and that model number sounds very familiar :) > Management Port > Cause: The SmartARRAY cannot establish > communication with the DAC960 hardware > RAID controller through the AEMI > management port. > Warning: Panel flashes and audible alarm sounds. > Solution: Ensure that the server is turned on after > SmartARRAY is turned on and that the server is > turned off before the SmartARRAY is turned > off. It is normal for this error condition to > appear when the SmartARRAY is turned on > before the server or when the server is turned off > before the SmartARRAY. If the condition is not > a result of the above, contact Technical Support > (see Chapter 5 - Customer Support for contact > information). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message