Re: Hot-Swapping hard drives on Dell PowerEdge 2850 running FBSD 5.5-PRE

2006-06-26 Thread Scott Mitchell
On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 01:54:14PM +0100, Joao Barros wrote: > On 6/26/06, Scott Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Yeah, megarc does have possibly the worst interface I've seen in quite a > >long time. Allegedly the Linux monitoring tools for these adapters will > >work with 6.1, although I h

Re: Hot-Swapping hard drives on Dell PowerEdge 2850 running FBSD 5.5-PRE

2006-06-26 Thread Joao Barros
On 6/26/06, Scott Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Yeah, megarc does have possibly the worst interface I've seen in quite a long time. Allegedly the Linux monitoring tools for these adapters will work with 6.1, although I haven't tried this myself yet. Yes, I think it was Doug Ambrisko who

Re: Hot-Swapping hard drives on Dell PowerEdge 2850 running FBSD 5.5-PRE

2006-06-26 Thread Scott Mitchell
On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 11:32:18AM +0100, Alex Zbyslaw wrote: > Joao Barros wrote: > > > > >Contrary to what megarc says, it's -h not -? for help. > >Hope this helps. > > > ? is special to the shell so you need to escape it with a \. > > h does not produce the same output for me - it's just treat

Re: Hot-Swapping hard drives on Dell PowerEdge 2850 running FBSD 5.5-PRE

2006-06-26 Thread Joao Barros
On 6/26/06, Alex Zbyslaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Joao Barros wrote: > > Contrary to what megarc says, it's -h not -? for help. > Hope this helps. > ? is special to the shell so you need to escape it with a \. h does not produce the same output for me - it's just treated as an unknown command

Re: Hot-Swapping hard drives on Dell PowerEdge 2850 running FBSD 5.5-PRE

2006-06-26 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Joao Barros wrote: Contrary to what megarc says, it's -h not -? for help. Hope this helps. ? is special to the shell so you need to escape it with a \. h does not produce the same output for me - it's just treated as an unknown command. It also doesn't work as a param to commands, but help

Re: Hot-Swapping hard drives on Dell PowerEdge 2850 running FBSD 5.5-PRE

2006-06-26 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Alex Franks wrote: Sadly, amrstat-20060414 doesn't build on FBSD 6.0 or earlier (or so says the error msg I get when trying to build it). I've got megarc installed but have no idea how to use it and no man page was included with the port. Anyone more familiar with this utility? Type # megarc

Re: Hot-Swapping hard drives on Dell PowerEdge 2850 running FBSD 5.5-PRE

2006-06-24 Thread Joao Barros
On 6/24/06, Alex Franks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 6/23/06, Joao Barros <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 6/23/06, Alex Franks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The controller is a Perc 4e/Di as assumed, and I'm still a little > > unsure as to whether the 2 drives that shipped with the machine are

Re: Hot-Swapping hard drives on Dell PowerEdge 2850 running FBSD 5.5-PRE

2006-06-23 Thread Alex Franks
On 6/23/06, Joao Barros <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 6/23/06, Alex Franks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The controller is a Perc 4e/Di as assumed, and I'm still a little > unsure as to whether the 2 drives that shipped with the machine are > currently set up in a RAID array. The current filesyste

Re: Hot-Swapping hard drives on Dell PowerEdge 2850 running FBSD 5.5-PRE

2006-06-23 Thread Joao Barros
On 6/23/06, Alex Franks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The controller is a Perc 4e/Di as assumed, and I'm still a little unsure as to whether the 2 drives that shipped with the machine are currently set up in a RAID array. The current filesystem is mounted on /dev/amrd0s1[a-f] and I would expect to f

Re: Hot-Swapping hard drives on Dell PowerEdge 2850 running FBSD 5.5-PRE

2006-06-23 Thread Alex Franks
On 6/23/06, Alex Zbyslaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Alex Franks wrote: > Hello all, > > I'm getting ready to install 2 identical drives into the available > drive bays in my 2850. However, it would be highly preferable that > this machine NOT be shut down in order to install these drives. I know

Re: Hot-Swapping hard drives on Dell PowerEdge 2850 running FBSD 5.5-PRE

2006-06-23 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Alex Franks wrote: Hello all, I'm getting ready to install 2 identical drives into the available drive bays in my 2850. However, it would be highly preferable that this machine NOT be shut down in order to install these drives. I know from looking at the docs that these drive bays are hot-swapp

Re: Hot-Swapping hard drives on Dell PowerEdge 2850 running FBSD 5.5-PRE

2006-06-22 Thread Scott Mitchell
On Thu, Jun 22, 2006 at 11:06:17AM -0700, Alex Franks wrote: > Hello all, > > I'm getting ready to install 2 identical drives into the available > drive bays in my 2850. However, it would be highly preferable that > this machine NOT be shut down in order to install these drives. I know > from look

Hot-Swapping hard drives on Dell PowerEdge 2850 running FBSD 5.5-PRE

2006-06-22 Thread Alex Franks
Hello all, I'm getting ready to install 2 identical drives into the available drive bays in my 2850. However, it would be highly preferable that this machine NOT be shut down in order to install these drives. I know from looking at the docs that these drive bays are hot-swappable, but I'd like to