Re: Serial ATA RAID ctrl on PCI
For example: # bioctl arc0 Volume Status Size Device arc0 0 Online 199336448 sd0 RAID6 0 Online 500107862016 0:0.0 noencl ST3500320AS SD15 1 Online 500107862016 0:1.0 noencl ST3500630AS 3.AAG 2 Online 500107862016 0:2.0 noencl ST3500320AS SD15 3 Online 500107862016 0:3.0 noencl ST3500320AS SD15 4 Online 500107862016 0:4.0 noencl ST3500320AS SD15 5 Online 500107862016 0:5.0 noencl ST3500320AS SD15 # sysctl hw.sensors.arc0 hw.sensors.arc0.drive0=online (sd0), OK From /etc/sensorsd.conf drive:command=echo %t failed with status: %s %2 on %x | mail -s `hostname` sensorsd CRITICAL \(RAID\) alarm Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2008-10-28, Don Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Oct 28, 2008, at 3:47 PM, Robert Franklin wrote: Did you read the man page for arc(4)? It says right there. I did, and I'm not seeing anything. ... arc supports alarm control and monitoring of volumes configured on the controllers via the bio(4) interface and the bioctl(8) utility. ...
Re: Serial ATA RAID ctrl on PCI
On Monday 27 October 2008, Mikolaj Kucharski wrote: Hi, I'm looking SATA controller with h/w RAID support which is working on OpenBSD and has: - minimum 4 SATA ports (internal preferably) - Built-in RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 1+0, RAID 5 - Hot swap (not a must) - PCI bus - large drives support (500GB) - use as RAID and non-RAID controller (not a must) You didn't mention SATA 150 versus SATA 300 (aka SATA 2) ? You didn't mention PCI width (32-bit versus 64-bit) ? You didn't mention PCI speed (33, 66, 100, 133 MHz) ? Attempting Hot-Swap with SATA drives is normally an invitation to disaster. The following are listed as supported on: http://www.openbsd.org/i386.html LSI MegaRAID SATA 150-4(four disk) PCI 64-bit/66 MHz LSI MegaRAID SATA 150-6(six disk) PCI 64-bit/66 MHz LSI MegaRAID SATA 300-4X (four disk) ? LSI MegaRAID SATA 300-4XLP (four disk) ? LSI MegaRAID SATA 300-8X (eight disk) PCI-X 64-bit, 133/100/66 MHz LSI MegaRAID SATA 300-8XLP (eight disk) ? You can get more info on the above from here: http://www.lsi.com/storage_home/products_home/internal_raid/megaraid_sata/index.html For some strange reason LSI is no longer listing the plain 300-4X but it is still listing the 300-4XLP If you have the wild idea of taking a four 500+GB drives and striping them together into a single partition of 2+TB size, realize the sane limit on OpenBSD 4.3 is only 1TB. I remember seeing Marco@ post something about building a 2TB partition, but he's a trained professional and licensed to do crazy stuff :-) -JCR
Re: Serial ATA RAID ctrl on PCI
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 11:14:50PM +, Mikolaj Kucharski wrote: Hi, I'm looking SATA controller with h/w RAID support which is working on OpenBSD and has: - minimum 4 SATA ports (internal preferably) - Built-in RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 1+0, RAID 5 - Hot swap (not a must) - PCI bus - large drives support (500GB) - use as RAID and non-RAID controller (not a must) Have a look at the man -k RAID output. Especially arc(4) and ami(4) are great SATA RAID controllers on OpenBSD. -- :wq Claudio
Re: Serial ATA RAID ctrl on PCI
On Oct 28, 2008, at 5:46 AM, Claudio Jeker wrote: Have a look at the man -k RAID output. Especially arc(4) and ami(4) are great SATA RAID controllers on OpenBSD. Does OpenBSD's arc(4) driver support any method to report RAID status and/or failures? If not, then how is an admin supposed to understand the health of arc supported RAID array?
Re: Serial ATA RAID ctrl on PCI
Did you read the man page for arc(4)? It says right there. On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 4:24 PM, Don Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Oct 28, 2008, at 5:46 AM, Claudio Jeker wrote: Have a look at the man -k RAID output. Especially arc(4) and ami(4) are great SATA RAID controllers on OpenBSD. Does OpenBSD's arc(4) driver support any method to report RAID status and/or failures? If not, then how is an admin supposed to understand the health of arc supported RAID array?
Re: Serial ATA RAID ctrl on PCI
On Oct 28, 2008, at 3:47 PM, Robert Franklin wrote: Did you read the man page for arc(4)? It says right there. I did, and I'm not seeing anything. It does talk about this: -a alarm-function Control the RAID card's alarm functionality, if supported. alarm-function may be one of: disable Disable the alarm on the RAID controller. enable Enable the alarm on the RAID controller. get Retrieve the current alarm state (enabled or disabled). silence | quiet Silence the alarm if it is currently beeping. The alarm-function may be specified as given above, or by the first letter only (e.g. -a e). But this all seems related to turning on/off the beeper, rather than giving me some textual indication of the health of the raid system. If my server is in a colo miles away, the alarm buzzer is not going to be particularly useful to me. Compare this to the ami driver, which states: Logical disk status is exposed under the hw.sensors sysctl(8) and can be monitored using sensorsd(8). For example: $ sysctl hw.sensors.ami0 hw.sensors.ami0.drive0=online (sd0), OK hw.sensors.ami0.drive1=degraded (sd1), WARNING hw.sensors.ami0.drive2=failed (sd2), CRITICAL This exactly the kind of thing I am asking if arc supports, and if it doesn't (which is what I suspect), then IMHO, OpenBSD's support for Areca cards is not as awesome as its support for LSI Megaraid boards On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 4:24 PM, Don Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Oct 28, 2008, at 5:46 AM, Claudio Jeker wrote: Have a look at the man -k RAID output. Especially arc(4) and ami(4) are great SATA RAID controllers on OpenBSD. Does OpenBSD's arc(4) driver support any method to report RAID status and/or failures? If not, then how is an admin supposed to understand the health of arc supported RAID array?
Re: Serial ATA RAID ctrl on PCI
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 04:26:11PM -0700, Don Jackson wrote: On Oct 28, 2008, at 3:47 PM, Robert Franklin wrote: Did you read the man page for arc(4)? It says right there. I did, and I'm not seeing anything. It does talk about this: -a alarm-function Control the RAID card's alarm functionality, if supported. alarm-function may be one of: disable Disable the alarm on the RAID controller. enable Enable the alarm on the RAID controller. get Retrieve the current alarm state (enabled or disabled). silence | quiet Silence the alarm if it is currently beeping. The alarm-function may be specified as given above, or by the first letter only (e.g. -a e). But this all seems related to turning on/off the beeper, rather than giving me some textual indication of the health of the raid system. If my server is in a colo miles away, the alarm buzzer is not going to be particularly useful to me. Compare this to the ami driver, which states: Logical disk status is exposed under the hw.sensors sysctl(8) and can be monitored using sensorsd(8). For example: $ sysctl hw.sensors.ami0 hw.sensors.ami0.drive0=online (sd0), OK hw.sensors.ami0.drive1=degraded (sd1), WARNING hw.sensors.ami0.drive2=failed (sd2), CRITICAL This exactly the kind of thing I am asking if arc supports, and if it doesn't (which is what I suspect), then IMHO, OpenBSD's support for Areca cards is not as awesome as its support for LSI Megaraid boards Yes, it should work the same as ami/mfi. ie: hw.sensors.arc0.drive0=online (sd0), OK hw.sensors.arc0.drive1=online (sd1), OK hw.sensors.arc0.drive2=online (sd2), OK hw.sensors.arc0.drive3=online (sd3), OK hw.sensors.arc0.drive4=online (sd4), OK hw.sensors.arc0.drive5=online (sd5), OK hw.sensors.arc0.drive6=online (sd6), OK hw.sensors.arc0.drive7=online (sd7), OK hw.sensors.arc0.drive8=online (sd8), OK hw.sensors.arc0.drive9=online (sd9), OK hw.sensors.arc0.drive10=online (sd10), OK If you have an sgpio enabled controller you can toggle LEDs on disk bays etc.
Re: Serial ATA RAID ctrl on PCI
On 2008-10-28, Don Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Oct 28, 2008, at 3:47 PM, Robert Franklin wrote: Did you read the man page for arc(4)? It says right there. I did, and I'm not seeing anything. ... arc supports alarm control and monitoring of volumes configured on the controllers via the bio(4) interface and the bioctl(8) utility. ...
Serial ATA RAID ctrl on PCI
Hi, I'm looking SATA controller with h/w RAID support which is working on OpenBSD and has: - minimum 4 SATA ports (internal preferably) - Built-in RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 1+0, RAID 5 - Hot swap (not a must) - PCI bus - large drives support (500GB) - use as RAID and non-RAID controller (not a must) -- best regards q#
