FreeBSD and Hot Swap rebuild on SCSI disks.

[Micheal Patterson]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Edy Lie" <email at edylie.net>
To: <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2003 10:02 AM
Subject: FreeBSD and Hot Swap rebuild on SCSI disks.


> Greetings,
>
> I have setup the following:
>
> FreeBSD 4.8 and using Adaptec 2100s for the SCSI RAID 5.
>
> Currently there are 5 harddisks which have been setup as RAID 5 and 1
> harddisk acts as hot spare.
>
> Interestingly, is there any tool on FreeBSD which allows to rebuild the
> array on the fly or is it a must to reboot and goto Adaptec 2100s SMOR
> to rebuild? If latter is the only option it defects the purpose of HOT
> SWAP capabilities.
>
> Anyone using Adaptec 2100s on FreeBSD please share some informations on
> how do you manage the array.
>
> TIA!
>
> Regards,
> Edy
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I do believe that this is what you're looking for. It's available directly
from Adaptec.

*********************************************************************
Release Notes for Adaptec 2100S, 3200S and 3400S SCSI RAID Controllers
as of August 14, 2000

<snip>

RAIDUTIL (Command Line Interface):

* RAIDUTIL, a command line storage management utility,
  allows you to create and manage your disk arrays from a
  command prompt on the following platforms:

    BSDi 4.x
    FreeBSD 4.x
    Linux (see Linux section for details)
    MS-DOS 6.22 or higher
    Novell NetWare 4.11, 4.2 and 5.x
    SCO UNIX 3.2v4.2
    SCO ODT 3.0 and OpenServer 5
    SCO UnixWare 7.x
    Windows NT 4.0
    Windows 2000

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Micheal Patterson
TSG Network Administration
405-917-0600

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