Re: AAC driver. No kernel error messages for failed raid5?
Robert Jesacher wrote: On 06.05.2008, at 22:02, Ed Maste wrote: On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 12:44:02PM -0700, Chris St Denis wrote: I pulled out one of the raid5 drives to test the functionality and noticed that FreeBSD didn't seem to notice the disk failure at all. I was expecting kernel messages about it, but got nothing. This is missing functionality in the aac(4) driver. For now about the best you can do is regularly poll the status using Adaptec's CLI tool arcconf. -ED The tool you need to look into is: sysutils/aaccli . I think arctool is only for arcmsr-devices. unfortunately aaccli doesn't provide the possibility to use it with parameters, so you probably need to use it with an expect-script. On the adaptec 2410SA I activated the alarm feature in the controller bios, which helps me, because its a home server but this will not help you if your server is sitting somewhere else. Because of this limitation (and a few other things with the controller) I'm certainly looking for an other solution. In my case a ZFS-based software RAID will suffice, but this might not be desirable for you. Take care good luck, Robert arcconf from ports works fine. It hangs on exit but does die off eventually and doesn't do any harm sitting in background for a while when run from cron, and from the commandline I can just ^c it. Here is what I used in cron for anyone who is interested: /usr/local/sbin/arcconf GETCONFIG 1 LD | egrep '(name|Status)' It gives results like this which work well. Could probably be incorporated into the daily run output, but I don't know exactly how off hand. Logical device name : Boot mirror Status of logical device : Optimal Logical device name : Data raid5 Status of logical device : Optimal According to arcconf my card doesn't have an audible alarm :( ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: AAC driver. No kernel error messages for failed raid5?
On 06.05.2008, at 22:02, Ed Maste wrote: On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 12:44:02PM -0700, Chris St Denis wrote: I pulled out one of the raid5 drives to test the functionality and noticed that FreeBSD didn't seem to notice the disk failure at all. I was expecting kernel messages about it, but got nothing. This is missing functionality in the aac(4) driver. For now about the best you can do is regularly poll the status using Adaptec's CLI tool arcconf. -ED The tool you need to look into is: sysutils/aaccli . I think arctool is only for arcmsr-devices. unfortunately aaccli doesn't provide the possibility to use it with parameters, so you probably need to use it with an expect-script. On the adaptec 2410SA I activated the alarm feature in the controller bios, which helps me, because its a home server but this will not help you if your server is sitting somewhere else. Because of this limitation (and a few other things with the controller) I'm certainly looking for an other solution. In my case a ZFS-based software RAID will suffice, but this might not be desirable for you. Take care good luck, Robert ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: AAC driver. No kernel error messages for failed raid5?
In the last episode (May 16), Robert Jesacher said: On 06.05.2008, at 22:02, Ed Maste wrote: On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 12:44:02PM -0700, Chris St Denis wrote: I pulled out one of the raid5 drives to test the functionality and noticed that FreeBSD didn't seem to notice the disk failure at all. I was expecting kernel messages about it, but got nothing. This is missing functionality in the aac(4) driver. For now about the best you can do is regularly poll the status using Adaptec's CLI tool arcconf. -ED The tool you need to look into is: sysutils/aaccli . I think arctool is only for arcmsr-devices. unfortunately aaccli doesn't provide the possibility to use it with parameters, so you probably need to use it with an expect-script. aaccli is most definitely scriptable: $ aaccli open /readonly aac0 : enclosure show status : disk show smart : container list /full -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: AAC driver. No kernel error messages for failed raid5?
Doesn't seem to work with my IBM ServeRAID 8k CLI open /readonly aac0 Executing: open /readonly=TRUE aac0 Command Error: The current AFAAPI.DLL is too old to work with the current controller software. Seems a little odd it's referencing a dll (which doesn't exist on the system) Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (May 16), Robert Jesacher said: On 06.05.2008, at 22:02, Ed Maste wrote: On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 12:44:02PM -0700, Chris St Denis wrote: I pulled out one of the raid5 drives to test the functionality and noticed that FreeBSD didn't seem to notice the disk failure at all. I was expecting kernel messages about it, but got nothing. This is missing functionality in the aac(4) driver. For now about the best you can do is regularly poll the status using Adaptec's CLI tool arcconf. -ED The tool you need to look into is: sysutils/aaccli . I think arctool is only for arcmsr-devices. unfortunately aaccli doesn't provide the possibility to use it with parameters, so you probably need to use it with an expect-script. aaccli is most definitely scriptable: $ aaccli open /readonly aac0 : enclosure show status : disk show smart : container list /full -- Chris St Denis Programmer SmarttNet (www.smartt.com) Ph: 604-473-9700 Ext. 200 --- Smart Internet Solutions For Businesses ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: AAC driver. No kernel error messages for failed raid5?
On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 01:52:50PM -0700, Chris St Denis wrote: Doesn't seem to work with my IBM ServeRAID 8k CLI open /readonly aac0 Executing: open /readonly=TRUE aac0 Command Error: The current AFAAPI.DLL is too old to work with the current controller software. You can avoid this issue by building a kernel with the latest aac(4) driver from RELENG_6/RELENG_7/HEAD, but you're probably better off just using arcconf instead of aaccli. -Ed ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
AAC driver. No kernel error messages for failed raid5?
I recently setup a new FreeBSD 7.0 AMD64 server with an IBM ServeRAID-8k configured with a raid5 for data and raid1 for OS. I pulled out one of the raid5 drives to test the functionality and noticed that FreeBSD didn't seem to notice the disk failure at all. I was expecting kernel messages about it, but got nothing. This is a bit concerning because I don't look at the server physically every day and want to know ASAP if a drive fails. I tried setting options AAC_DEBUG=1 but that produces a lot of messages even during normal use so I'd rather not leave that on. Is this a bug in the driver, or simply missing functionality? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: AAC driver. No kernel error messages for failed raid5?
On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 12:44:02PM -0700, Chris St Denis wrote: I pulled out one of the raid5 drives to test the functionality and noticed that FreeBSD didn't seem to notice the disk failure at all. I was expecting kernel messages about it, but got nothing. This is missing functionality in the aac(4) driver. For now about the best you can do is regularly poll the status using Adaptec's CLI tool arcconf. -Ed ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
