FreeBSD 6.4/i386 on Proliant DL360 G5 - drive failing but camcontrol says ok?

[Karl Pielorz]

--On 07 September 2010 10:51 +0200 Søren Klintrup <soren at klintrup.dk> 
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Per default camcontrol uses cached data from boot, you can update the data
> using camcontrol inquiry da1 -D, that will output upated data, this has
> worked for us on all versions smartarray controllers, if you have one that
> it doesn't work on I'd love to know :-)
>
> You should be able to get a few hints from my check_smartarray.sh script
> at http://soren.klintrup.dk/proliant/.

Hi,

Thanks - that works - it now reports:

"
#camcontrol inquiry da1 -D
pass1: <COMPAQ RAID 1  VOLUME inte> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-5 device
"

For the failing RAID array.

I wasn't aware of the caching etc. - previously just 'camcontrol devlist' 
seemed to reflect the actual status - I'll update all our monitoring now :)

Regards,

-Karl