Using a RAID-card with FreeBSD

Thu Jul 3 11:05:20 PDT 2003

On Thursday, Jul 3, 2003, at 09:44 US/Mountain, Micheal Patterson wrote:
>
> As I recall, that particular system is running an Adaptec 2100S under
> FreeBSD 4.8. I've not found any software that can access that 
> particular
> raid directly for configuration from within the running OS.

Actually Adaptec has FreeBSD management software for the 2100S.  I 
had/have two machines running 2100S and FreeBSD 4.7 and on one of them 
I can get the management software to run and on one of them I can't.  
There is no difference in the machines themselves.  But you can 
download and try the software from the adaptec website.

Chad

> The only way to
> access it that I'm aware of is with the standard Control A at system 
> startup
> to access the on board settings of the card. Here, the raid type can be
> configured. I will say that I've had a drive failure on this system 
> with
> little effect on the normal operation of the OS. However, since there 
> aren't
> any hot swappable bays in this particular system (company didn't want 
> to
> spend for them), the system has to be shut down to replace the failed 
> drive.
> However, the system will still boot in diminished mode and continue 
> this way
> until the new drive has been restored.
>
> --
>
> Micheal Patterson
> TSG Network Administration
> 405-917-0600
>
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