Re: FreeBSD and Hot Swap rebuild on SCSI disks.

From: Micheal Patterson (micheal_at_tsgincorporated.com)
Date: 09/09/03

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    Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2003 12:25:34 -0500
    
    

    ----- Original Message -----
    From: "Edy Lie" <email@edylie.net>
    To: <freebsd-questions@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
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