From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 8 15:33:49 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 039E2106564A for ; Mon, 8 Jun 2009 15:33:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) Received: from cyrus.watson.org (cyrus.watson.org [65.122.17.42]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CAD8A8FC18 for ; Mon, 8 Jun 2009 15:33:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) Received: from bigwig.baldwin.cx (66.111.2.69.static.nyinternet.net [66.111.2.69]) by cyrus.watson.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 8080C46B45; Mon, 8 Jun 2009 11:33:48 -0400 (EDT) Received: from jhbbsd.hudson-trading.com (unknown [209.249.190.8]) by bigwig.baldwin.cx (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 67EA78A049; Mon, 8 Jun 2009 11:33:47 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2009 10:29:15 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200906081029.15840.jhb@freebsd.org> X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.0.1 (bigwig.baldwin.cx); Mon, 08 Jun 2009 11:33:47 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.95.1 at bigwig.baldwin.cx X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.5 required=4.2 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RDNS_NONE autolearn=no version=3.2.5 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on bigwig.baldwin.cx Cc: Michael Starling Subject: Re: Monitor Hardware RAID X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 08 Jun 2009 15:33:49 -0000 On Friday 05 June 2009 10:28:49 am Michael Starling wrote: > > I just installed FreeBSD 7.2 on a Dell T100 PowerEdge server with 2 > 500GB SATA drives. The server has the Dell sas6ir RAID controller card. The output from dmesg shows RAID 1 enabled and both disk are healthy. My question is this...How can I be sure that the RAID is > functioning properly and/or how can I monitor the RAID device for failures etc..? I'm new > to FreeBSD so forgive me if this is a simple question. Thanks You can use mptutil and mptd from the //depot/user/jhb/raid/... branch in FreeBSD p4. -- John Baldwin