Compaq Smart Array 4200 controller question

[Matthew N. Dodd]

On Tue, 1 Feb 2005, Andrew Heyn wrote:
> I have just installed FreeBSD 5.3 on a Compaq Proliant 8500 system.
> I noticed I get a lot of these errors:
>
> ida0: soft read error
> ida0: soft write error

I'm betting your array is still rebuilding.  Try out
ftp://ftp.jurai.net/users/winter/idacontrol.tar to see what the array
status is.

Soft errors are harmless and the messages informing you of them should 
probably be rate-limited.

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