Hi, I have a customer with a server with an Adaptec 2100 SCSI card and 2 73Gb seagates, running 6.1. Now one of the disks has been acting up and disconnected from the Raid-1. Customer got a call from the NOC that a server was beeping quite loud. So I rebuild the RAID and stress tested it a little, and thus far the disks have not disconnected or caused other trouble. I am however reluctant to ship the box back into the data center, because I can not get the ASR tools to work with the card. Reading this list, this is not really uncommon. So the 1000$ question: is there any chance of getting at least the state of the RAID and its disk out into the open? It shure would give me a much better feeling, knowing that at least serious trouble would be detected by me. Instead of getting this call from a NOC. OR was this driver maintained by the manufacturer and he is no longer supporting it? Thanx, --WjW
Willem Jan Withagen wrote:> So the 1000$ question: is there any chance of getting at least the state > of the RAID and its disk out into the open? It shure would give me a > much better feeling, knowing that at least serious trouble would be > detected by me. Instead of getting this call from a NOC.It works fine here. I use this on systems with 2100s, and with 2010s. cd /usr/ports/sysutils/asr-utils; make install clean Make sure it installs compat4x, it should as it is listed as a dependency. Add this to /etc/rc.conf: compat4x_enable="YES" add "options ASR_COMPAT" to your kernel and rebuild the kernel Reboot. That's it. You can use "raidutil -A off" to silence the alarm once it is active. As well as checking the drives with "raidutil -L all". You can get more/less detail, just check the command line options. Jim
On Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 12:13:11PM -0500, Jim Pingle wrote:> Willem Jan Withagen wrote: > > So the 1000$ question: is there any chance of getting at least the state > > of the RAID and its disk out into the open? > > It works fine here. I use this on systems with 2100s, and with 2010s. > > cd /usr/ports/sysutils/asr-utils; make install clean >I have a 3210S, along with asr-utils. The asr-utils will live in /usr/local/dpt, and dprmgr provides a nice GUI to monitor and configure the raid. I have had some problems reported with disk going bad, but I suspect it was more a power issue (I have 5 73GBs in a Super Micro enclosure). Bruce -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "I like bad!" Bruce Burden Austin, TX. - Thuganlitha The Power and the Prophet Robert Don Hughes
Bruce Burden wrote:> On Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 12:13:11PM -0500, Jim Pingle wrote: >> Willem Jan Withagen wrote: >>> So the 1000$ question: is there any chance of getting at least the state >>> of the RAID and its disk out into the open? >> It works fine here. I use this on systems with 2100s, and with 2010s. >> >> cd /usr/ports/sysutils/asr-utils; make install clean >> > I have a 3210S, along with asr-utils. The asr-utils will > live in /usr/local/dpt, and dprmgr provides a nice GUI to monitor > and configure the raid.I already suspected something like that when I saw /dev/dpt17... However the $1000 answer came while I was posting my message: options ASR_COMPAT with thanx to Jim Pingle --WjW