ciss(4) driver in FreeBSD 6.x ...

[Philippe Pegon]

Holger Kipp wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 07:15:07PM +0100, Sascha Holzleiter wrote:
> 
>>On Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 07:01:17PM +0100, Philippe Pegon wrote:
>>
>>>We have about thirty HP servers (DL360 and DL380) with FreeBSD 5 and 6, 
>>>and they seem to work fine with ciss driver. Just this damn bug 
>>>(kern/83375) which is not related to ciss driver...
>>
>>do you know of any method to monitor these [ciss] controllers with FreeBSD,
>>e.g. to detect drive failures?
> 
> 
> You could simply monitor the corresponding ciss syslog-messages
> and scan for state changes (ie from OK to something else). Apart
> from reboot-messages, you only get messages if states are
> changing... 

you could also use camcontrol(8)

for example :

camcontrol inquiry da0 -D

> 
> Regards,
> Holger Kipp
> alogis AG, Berlin

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Philippe Pegon