freebsd stable - Feb 2004 - Permanently disabling alarm on Intel RAID controller ...

Sent this earlier, but just thought of something
We have an SRCU42L controller in one of our machines whose alarm is going
off due to a hard drive failure ... its driving the techs up the wall
right now, so we'd like to disable it until the new drive gets in ...
gonig into the onboard console and doing the Advanced F4 silences the
alarm, but only until we reboot ...

Is there no way of just turning it off so that it doesn't go off?  and we
can turn it back on again once the drive is replaced?

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Marc G. Fournier           Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org)
Email: scrappy@hub.org           Yahoo!: yscrappy              ICQ: 7615664

We have an SRCU42L controller in one of our machines whose alarm is going
off due to a hard drive failure ... its driving the techs up the wall
right now, so we'd like to disable it until the new drive gets in ...
gonig into the onboard console and doing the Advanced F4 silences the
alarm, but only until we reboot ...

Is there no way of just turning it off so that it doesn't go off?  and we
can turn it back on again once the drive is replaced?

Even better, is there any way of accessing the controller from the command
line to turn off the alarm, knowing that it will restart again on next
reboot?  Something similar to the aacli command for the Adaptec
controllers?

Thanks ...

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Marc G. Fournier           Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org)
Email: scrappy@hub.org           Yahoo!: yscrappy              ICQ: 7615664

http://support.intel.com/support/motherboards/server/audible_alarm.htm

Assuming your running FreeBSD, you can run storcon from the console of the 
machine once you download it from Intel at:

http://aiedownload.intel.com/df-support/5095/eng/freebsd_212.zip

or, there is always the small piece of tape over the speaker trick...
   -Sam

At 07:10 AM 1/29/2004, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
>Sent this earlier, but just thought of something
>We have an SRCU42L controller in one of our machines whose alarm is going
>off due to a hard drive failure ... its driving the techs up the wall
>right now, so we'd like to disable it until the new drive gets in ...
>gonig into the onboard console and doing the Advanced F4 silences the
>alarm, but only until we reboot ...
>
>Is there no way of just turning it off so that it doesn't go off?  and
we
>can turn it back on again once the drive is replaced?
>
>----
>Marc G. Fournier           Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org)
>Email: scrappy@hub.org           Yahoo!: yscrappy              ICQ: 7615664
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