RE: [smartmontools-support]Monitoring SCSI through a Perc3/Di?

[James H. <jhe...@qu...>]

Thanks for all the thought you guys put in to this.  Looking forward to the
next release!

James

-----Original Message-----
From: Bruce Allen [mailto:ba...@gr...]
Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2004 6:32 AM
To: Erik Inge Bolsø
Cc: Bruce Allen; James Herschel; Smartmontools Mailing List
Subject: Re: [smartmontools-support]Monitoring SCSI through a Perc3/Di?

Erik,

Thanks for the explaination -- I hadn't realized that Perc3/Di == aacraid.
I'll send a note to the aacraid maintainers.

Cheers,
        Bruce

On Sat, 31 Jan 2004, Erik Inge Bolsø wrote:

> On Fri, 30 Jan 2004, James Herschel wrote:
> >Just curious if it's even possible for starters - and if it is, can
anyone
> >point me in the right direction for resources? I'm running RHES 3.0 on a
> >Dell Poweredge 1650 with two Hitachi DR32DJ-36MC drives using RAID 1.
> >
> >I'm tired of crashing my test server ;-)
>
> Bruce, others:
>
> Dell PERC3/Di - which is the name of the controller - is an aacraid
> controller. Which we already warn against trying smartmontools on.
>
> In our warning file:
>
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/smartmontools/sm5/WARNINGS?rev=HEAD&co
ntent-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup
>
> SYSTEM:   Dell servers using AACRAID (SCSI)
> PROBLEM:  Locked up, needed to be rebooted
> REPORTER: dr...@ea...
> LINK:
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=1311313&forum_id=1249
5
>
> Probably a aacraid driver bug that should be fixed. Nevertheless, we also
> need a way to get through the raid to the physical disks underneath the
> logical volume.
>
> --
> Erik I. Bolsø | email: <knan at mo.himolde.no>
> The UNIX philosophy basically involves giving you enough rope to
> hang yourself.  And then a couple of feet more, just to be sure.
>
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