On Sun, 16 Jan 2000, Matthew Jacob wrote:
>
> >
> > I've got a Compaq Proliant 3000 with three drives in a hot-plug
> > chassis that I was told by someone else a while back (you?) speak
> > SAF-TE. Unfortunately, I'm running -STABLE on that box. If this
> > would happen to work with -STABLE,
>
> If all goes well, I'll do a MFC next week or so.
OK. I'll go ahead and replace the disk for now.
> > I just _happen_ to have a disk that
> > is giving me fits (medium errors resulting in unrecoverable read
> > errors) and am about to go in tomorrow to swap it with another disk.
> > Since the disk wasn't really doing anything too terribly important
> > (holding one-third of my Squid cache, /usr/obj, and a copy of the
> > FreeBSD CVS repository), I can hold off replacing it for a while if it
> > needs to be used as a test subject.
>
>
> This would not likely be seen as an Environmental Services issue- this is
> already being reported via the SCSI Direct Access (da) driver. In fact, one of
> the big lacks of SES/SAF-TE is the difficulty in correlating errors from
> entities within a box and errors reported by the box.
>
> SES/SAF-TE is more for disk boxes, etc.. For example, on quarm I have a Sun
> A5000 on a fibre channel loop:
Hmm... I guess I was confusing this with the S.M.A.R.T. stuff that is
supposed to give you a kind of pre-emptive warning that bad things are
going to happen (or have happened, rather... i.e. the drive starts
reallocating a bunch of blocks or senses some other kind of internal
problem). Will what you've done at least allow the nifty "I'm OK" LED
to light up on the hot-swap disk tray like it does on the NT boxen?
*duck* :-)
On a similar note, I guess, how exactly _would_ you query a drive
about its SMART status in FreeBSD? It would be neat to have the
status LEDs on the drive trays reflect the health of the drive. If I
read your description of the SAF-TE/SES stuff right, that is what
would be used to twiddle the LED off/on.
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