Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 21:26:59 +0000 From: Vince <jhary@unsane.co.uk> To: Jesse Sheidlower <jester@panix.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hardware RAID diagnostics (Dell PERC 6/i) Message-ID: <47BB49A3.4090206@unsane.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20080219192701.GA28728@panix.com> References: <20080219192701.GA28728@panix.com>
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Jesse Sheidlower wrote: > I'm in the process of getting a new server, and have been > planning on a Dell PowerEdge 1950. > > I see from this thread: > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2008-January/039675.html > > That the PERC 6/i RAID controller seems to work fine with the > mfi(4) driver; I was planning on a 4 x 73GB RAID5 setup, so > the problems about addressing > 1TB don't seem to apply. > > My straightforward question is just wondering about how you > get diagnostics from this device. My server will be in a > remote location, so I'm curious how I would even know if a > disk has failed. There wasn't anything about this in the > mfi(4) manpage, nor in the RAID section of the Handbook. I've no experience of the 6/i but have a look at the results given by cd /usr/ports make search key=megaraid The megarc util certainly worked on older LSI megaraid controllers and I've used the linux megarc util on recent megaraid sas controllers (MegaRAID SAS 8708ELP) under centos linux Vince > > My current server is in a 2 x 18GB RAID1 setup, but I pretty > much plugged it in and it Just Worked, and I never thought > about it any more; this time I'd like to know more about how > to manage it. > > Thanks. > > Jesse Sheidlower > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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