x3550 ServeRAID-8k and FBSD 7, group limit

[Gian Paolo Buono]

Hi,
I have a problem when run
/usr/local/sbin/arcconf GETCONFIG 1 LD

Controllers found: 1
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Logical device information
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Logical device number 0
   Logical device name                      : Drive 1
   RAID level                               : 1
   Status of logical device                 : Optimal
   Size                                     : 69890 MB
   Write-cache mode                         : Not supported
   Partitioned                              : Yes
   Protected by Hot-Spare                   : No
   Bootable                                 : Yes
   Failed stripes                           : No
   --------------------------------------------------------
   Logical device segment information
   --------------------------------------------------------
   Segment 0                                : Present (0,0)
   Segment 1                                : Present (0,1)



Command completed successfully.

^C

the output of command is correct but don't exit and I must press control^C.
I want exit without press control^C, have you suggestions to resolve this
problem ?

Bye Gian Paolo




On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 10:08 PM, Chris St Denis <chris at smartt.com> wrote:

> Ivan Voras wrote:
>
>> Yury Michurin wrote:
>>
>>
>>> We are currently considering to purchase IBM x3550 with ServeRAID-8k, in
>>> order to run FreeBSD 7 with RAID5,
>>> but it is very unclear from what I've saw on the Internet, whether the
>>> driver support on FreeBSD is stable enough for production use,
>>>
>>>
>>
>> I've never had problems with it, and I didn't heard of any serious
>> problems others had.
>>
>>
> aac driver doesn't seem to notice if a drive fails. You'll want to keep an
> eye on with it arcconf run via crontab or something as a workaround. I use
>
>   /usr/local/sbin/arcconf GETCONFIG 1 LD | egrep '(name|Status)'
>
> Seems to work fine with FreeBSD other than that. Only other issue I've had
> with it, is it takes about 4 minutes to load it's bios in post.
>
>>
>>
>>> and I've left with many questions unanswered, with which I hope you'll be
>>> kind to help me =)
>>>
>>>
>>> 1. Is FreeBSD supports the device right after install or I need to
>>> recompile
>>> the kernel?
>>>
>>>
>>
>> It's available by default. This is the aac driver:
>> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?aac
>>
>>
>>
>>> 2. Is tools for manage the RAID available? If no, how you rebuild the
>>> array
>>> on drive failure (and how to detect it)?
>>>
>>>
>>
>> You can use the aaccli management tool :
>> http://www.freshports.org/sysutils/aaccli/
>>
>>
> aacli doesn't work with ServeRAID-8k. But sysutils/arcconf does. I think
> it's read only tho.
>
>>
>>
>>> I've just remember i had another unanswered question, not related to
>>> x3550:
>>> 3. When I've used FreeBSD 6.2, it had a limitation, that a user can be
>>> member only of N groups (don't remember exactly, i think N = 15),
>>> however i couldn't find any official documentation of that issue, nor if
>>> it
>>> still exists in FBSD 7, so is it? =)
>>>
>>>
>>
>> It still exists and AFAIK it won't be changed soon because of the need
>> to support NFS. You could try raising the issue again on the current at list.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>
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