On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 02:05:48PM -0700, Ryan Corder wrote: > On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 09:41:42PM +0200, Henning Brauer wrote: > | maybe by reading the bioctl manpage? your bioctl usage is completely > | off. way off. > | (ok, I give you a treaty: bioctl arc0) > > Fair enough, being a bad user is no excuse. This got my alarm reporting, but > what is with the error? > > (19)[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ sudo bioctl -a get arc0 > alarm is currently enabled > (20)[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ sudo bioctl -v arc0 > Volume Status Size Device > arc0 0 Online 249999917056 sd0 RAID1 > bioctl: BIOCDISK: Input/output error > (21)[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ > > Same behavior if I run it as root directly rather than via sudo. > > thanks. > ryanc
This sounds like the new firmware, but I can't see a dmesg from you to figure out if this is the case for sure. The newer firmwares behave slightly differently, but should report things in bioctl properly with 4.4 and -current.