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On 14 Feb 2007, at 14:08, Matthias Scheler wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 01:55:50PM +0100, Johan Ihren wrote:
>> But I need to be notified if a disk fails, etc. This box will sit in
>> a remote facility and w/o status notifications there is zero
>> opportunity for me to know if there are issues with the RAID. Am I
>> missing something obvious here?
>
> You should as far as I know at least get a kernel message if something
> goes wrong with the RAID. My RAID controller reports the status of
> the RAID in the kernel messages:
>
> ld0 at icp0 unit 0: <PD_A000>, type: RAID-1, status: optimal <---

Yes, something like that is exactly what I'd expect. But there is  
complete silence from the Adaptec adapter even when I pull disks,  
reinsert them and in general try to trigger some reaction.

No, sorry, "silence" is not true. There is an acoustic alarm from the  
RAID controller itself... but that really doesn't help me much for a  
remote system in a hosting facility ;-)

> And if I remember correctly I got another kernel message when  
> something
> went wrong with it (the original firmware apperently had trouble with
> disks >128GB).

Johan


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