newbie to hw raid and lvm

[Niki Denev]

Stephan van Beerschoten writes:
> ....................................................................
> Also, I noticed the kernel recognized each individual disk which is part 
> of my mirror. Is it possible to do anything with the raid configuration 
> from a userland perspective or is this information given only because 
> the kernel happends to be able to register it, but one cannot actually 
> DO anything with this information ?
> 
> /Stephan
>

You may try atacontrol(8), it allows you to create/delete/rebuild raid 
arrays on some controllers. I think it will work on your Promise.
As for the information about the individual disks, i personally use it 
for S.M.A.R.T. monitoring on each disk with 'smartmontools' from ports.

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Regards,
Niki Denev


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