LSI Logic raid status

[Peter Ankerstål]

On Mar 24, 2009, at 8:00 PM, Charles Sprickman wrote:

>
>
> dev.mpt.0.nonoptimal_volumes: 0
>
> Don't test whether the "nonoptimal_volumes" parameter works, it does -
> but if you pull a drive, FreeBSD likes to panic both on the loss of  
> a disk
> and then again when the drive is reconnected and the rebuild  
> completes.
> This is apparently some problem in the CAM layer, not the mpt  
> driver, but
> it's something to be aware of.  Scott Long has noted that this is  
> being
> worked on in 8.x.


Yes, I tried to remove a drive today. Of course I need to see if it  
works properly
before using it "for real". It did, but just as you say it paniced  
when I pulled the
drive and when is was resynced. But it sound great if someone is  
working on
this problem!

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Peter Ankerstål
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