AAC driver. No kernel error messages for failed raid5?
Chris St Denis
chris at smartt.com
Fri May 16 20:52:49 UTC 2008
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"
>
>
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