Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2003 15:59:27 -0700 From: Scott Long <scott_long@btc.adaptec.com> To: Mike Hoskins <mike@adept.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Telling AMR controller to rebuild RAID5 through FreeBSD ... Message-ID: <3E20A1CF.4070203@btc.adaptec.com> In-Reply-To: <20030110122546.X62719-100000@fubar.adept.org> References: <20030110122546.X62719-100000@fubar.adept.org>
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Mike Hoskins wrote: > On Fri, 10 Jan 2003, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > >We've just been informed that one of our drives has to be replaced, > but in > >order to do so, the machine has to be rebooted, since they can't initiate > >the rebuild from FreeBSD ... its using one of the MegaRAID > controllers ... > >is this, in fact, correct, or do they just not know how to do it? I'd > >rather have them hot-swap the drive and rebuild it without having to > >shutdown the machine ... > > > This may be related to afaapps*.rpm/afacli. (At least I've ran into this > before. Dell originally released binary drivers to get RH to support the > PERC arrays, and also released afaappss/afacli to interface with the > arrays.) The unofficial Dell PERC/afaapps page is here, > > http://www.domsch.com/linux/ > > This post, > > http://www.geocrawler.com/archives/3/168/2002/2/0/7903628/ > > Indicates afacli will run under Linux emulation, so that may be an option. > (Haven't tried it myself.) > > -- > Mike Hoskins This message is RFC 1855 compliant, > mike@adept.org www.adept.org/pub/rfcs/rfc1855.html > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message The afaapps only work with hardware supported under the aac driver. Also, there is a FreeBSD-native version of the afaapps. If you go to the Adaptec website and look under the software downloads that are available for the 5400S card, there is a package called aaccli.tgz for FreeBSD. This will work with the Dell, Adaptec, and HP flavors of aac hardware. Scott To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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