From owner-freebsd-scsi Tue Nov 7 14:52:54 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (adsl-63-206-90-77.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.206.90.77]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8E6E37B479 for ; Tue, 7 Nov 2000 14:52:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.0/8.11.1) with ESMTP id eA7MvbF33430; Tue, 7 Nov 2000 14:57:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.osd.bsdi.com) Message-Id: <200011072257.eA7MvbF33430@mass.osd.bsdi.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Tim Tsai Cc: freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DPT SmartRAID VI In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 07 Nov 2000 09:12:27 CST." <20001107091227.A624@futuresouth.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2000 14:57:37 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > I just setup 4.1.1-RELEASE with a DPT SmartRAID VI controller using the > asr0 driver and it seems to work fine so far. Any idea if/when we can > get some kind of status information from the RAID volume? I don't > really care about a full-blown management utility (althouhg that we be > nice) but am just interested in knowing when to swap out a failed drive > remotely. Adaptec are working on these tools (they're in testing right now). You should call them up and bug them about it. Their support people are funneling queries in the right direction, so the right people ought to eventually hear you. You might also talk to scottl@freebsd.org, who is more closely involved with this. -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message