ciss(4) driver in FreeBSD 6.x ...

[kama]

On Thu, 24 Nov 2005, Holger Kipp wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 07:15:07PM +0100, Sascha Holzleiter wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 07:01:17PM +0100, Philippe Pegon wrote:
> > > We have about thirty HP servers (DL360 and DL380) with FreeBSD 5 and 6,
> > > and they seem to work fine with ciss driver. Just this damn bug
> > > (kern/83375) which is not related to ciss driver...
> >
> > do you know of any method to monitor these [ciss] controllers with FreeBSD,
> > e.g. to detect drive failures?
>
> You could simply monitor the corresponding ciss syslog-messages
> and scan for state changes (ie from OK to something else). Apart
> from reboot-messages, you only get messages if states are
> changing...

Maybe this is what you are looking for?

http://people.freebsd.org/~jcagle/

/Bjorn