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Date:      Fri, 16 May 2008 13:52:50 -0700
From:      Chris St Denis <chris@smartt.com>
To:        Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
Cc:        Robert Jesacher <jessy@sicha.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: AAC driver. No kernel error messages for failed raid5?
Message-ID:  <482DF422.8080304@smartt.com>
In-Reply-To: <20080516202904.GJ4461@dan.emsphone.com>
References:  <4820B502.8000009@smartt.com> <20080506200245.GA4083@sandvine.com>	<AF4FF84A-5F14-4189-8D2C-1D7A5A5B7EC2@sicha.net> <20080516202904.GJ4461@dan.emsphone.com>

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Doesn't seem to work with my IBM ServeRAID 8k

CLI > open /readonly aac0
Executing: open /readonly=TRUE "aac0"
Command Error: <The current AFAAPI.DLL is too old to work with the 
current controller software.>

Seems a little odd it's referencing a dll (which doesn't exist on the 
system)

Dan Nelson wrote:
> In the last episode (May 16), Robert Jesacher said:
>   
>> On 06.05.2008, at 22:02, Ed Maste wrote:
>>     
>>> On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 12:44:02PM -0700, Chris St Denis wrote:
>>>       
>>>> I pulled out one of the raid5 drives to test the functionality and
>>>> noticed that FreeBSD didn't seem to notice the disk failure at all.
>>>> I was expecting kernel messages about it, but got nothing.
>>>>         
>>> This is missing functionality in the aac(4) driver.  For now about
>>> the best you can do is regularly poll the status using Adaptec's CLI
>>> tool "arcconf."
>>>
>>> -ED
>>>       
>> The tool you need to look into is: sysutils/aaccli . I think arctool
>> is only for arcmsr-devices. unfortunately aaccli doesn't provide the
>> possibility to use it with parameters, so you probably need to use it
>> with an expect-script.
>>     
>
> aaccli is most definitely scriptable:
>
> $ aaccli "open /readonly aac0 : enclosure show status : disk show smart : container list /full"
>
>   


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