This morning I received a message from my 3ware raid card and I wanted to know if there is a way to rebuild the raid with out having to reboot and use the 3ware bios. I know in Linux there is a way to view the software raid by using the proc. Is there something similar in Freebsd for hardware or will I have to reboot and use the 3ware bios? twe0: AEN: <twed0: rebuild done> twed0: drive timeouttwe0: AEN: <twed0: degraded unit> BTW, I'm going to replace the problem drive too I just wanted to know if I can access any of this via the Freebsd. Thanks for any assistance you offer. Hardware: 3ware 5800 8 port raid card. Here's some info from the dmesg: -------------------------------------------- FreeBSD 4.11-STABLE FreeBSD 4.11-STABLE #0: Thu Dec 8 12:24:06 PST 2005 root@remote:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 twe0: <3ware Storage Controller driver ver. 1.40.01.002> port 0xb400-0xb40f irq 10 at device 11.0 on pci0 twe0: 8 ports, Firmware V4.77 , BIOS V1.02.055 twed0: <Unit 0, TwinStor, Rebuilding> on twe0 twed0: 76318MB (156299440 sectors) twe0: AEN: <twed0: rebuild done> twed0: drive timeouttwe0: AEN: <twed0: degraded unit>
At 11:25 AM 17/01/2006, Eric Marquez wrote:>This morning I received a message from my 3ware raid card and I >wanted to know if there is a way to rebuild the raid with out having >to reboot and use the 3ware bios. >Hardware: 3ware 5800 8 port raid card. >Here's some info from the dmesg:The 5xxx series are certainly not hot swappable so I am not sure how you could rebuild it with a new drive. If you think the problem drive is really ok, you could in the 3dmd program remove the bad drive, add it back, select the array and rebuild. However, not sure if the currently 3dmd program supports such an old controller. Really, your best bet is to do it in the BIOS. It will rebuild in the backupground ---Mike
Eric Marquez wrote:> > This morning I received a message from my 3ware raid card and I wanted > to know if there is a way to rebuild the raid with out having to > reboot and use the 3ware bios. I know in Linux there is a way to view > the software raid by using the proc. Is there something similar in > Freebsd for hardware or will I have to reboot and use the 3ware bios?The 3ware disk manager is in /usr/ports/sysutils/3dm including a web ui, etc. Not sure what it'll support on the older generation cards. On my 8506-4LP, it supports rebuild from inside FreeBSD Regards, Gary