[Bruce Allen <ballen@gr...>]

Hi Zhou,

Thank you!

Cheers,
 	Bruce

On Tue, 13 Jan 2009, zhou sf wrote:

> Hi all,
> I start to write the highpoint part of the freebsd port, please wait, thanks.
>
> 2009/1/12 Bruce Allen <ballen@...>:
>> Dan, Bryant: we do have a smartmontools developer (Zhou) who in the past
>> provided highpoint support for smartmontools on Linux.
>>
>> Zhou: would you or one of your colleagues be willing to provide some help
>> with smartmontools on FreeBSD?  We have at least one active FreeBSD
>> developer who could help out.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>     Bruce
>>
>> On Sun, 11 Jan 2009, Bryant Eadon wrote:
>>
>>> Dan Lukes wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Bryant Eadon napsal/wrote, On 01/12/09 00:15:
>>>>>
>>>>>    So, I own one of these controllers and have had a failure recently
>>>>> on FreeBSD that I wasn't able to detect ahead of time.  I'm mostly
>>>>> kicking myself for not setting up something to monitor it ahead of time.
>>>>>
>>>>>    How can I contribute to make FreeBSD supported ?  Is anyone
>>>>> working on this support at the moment, can I lend a hand (or ssh login)?
>>>>
>>>> There is very limited support from High Point company to FreeBSD e.g.
>>>> such hardware is nearly unsupported on FreeBSD.
>>>>
>>>> As far as I know, the API is not freely available. The current driver is
>>>> created using binary object supplied by manufacturer.
>>>>
>>>> I don't know if the required functions are available.
>>>>
>>>> I assume there is no possibility to monitor disc that are part of RAID.
>>>>
>>>> The disc that are not part of a RAID are exposed as standard SCSI disc
>>>> through CAM subsystem (if loaded), so you may try to access it as
>>>> standard SCSI device. But such access may be limited due limited driver
>>>> support also. I have no such hardware, so you need to test it by self.
>>>>
>>>> But easiest way is - use supported hardware.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>                    Dan
>>>
>>> I see.  Well, I have this hardware, I'm sure others do.  It's supported on
>>> Linux
>>> which is a good start.  I'd like to get/make SMART monitoring for it.
>>>
>>> I suppose I should ping HighPoint about an API for FreeBSD ?
>>>
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