Re: looking for victims, err, uh, 'volunteers'

2000-02-22 Thread SysAdmin
17, 2000 7:55 PM Subject: Re: looking for victims, err, uh, 'volunteers' > On Sun, 16 Jan 2000, Kenneth D. Merry wrote: > > I haven't even looked at the SMART stuff. Got any pointers to specs? > > Here is a link to Quantum's white paper. > > http://www.quan

Re: looking for victims, err, uh, 'volunteers'

2000-02-21 Thread Jason K. Fritcher
On Sun, 16 Jan 2000, Kenneth D. Merry wrote: > I haven't even looked at the SMART stuff. Got any pointers to specs? Here is a link to Quantum's white paper. http://www.quantum.com/src/whitepapers/wp_smart_toc.htm In the paper, it mentions the standard is published in Small Form Factor Committe

Re: looking for victims, err, uh, 'volunteers'

2000-01-16 Thread Matthew Jacob
SMART is IDE, I believe.. and unless somebody hits Soren over the head, we're not gonna have even ATAPI to try SMART with. On Sun, 16 Jan 2000, Kenneth D. Merry wrote: > On Sun, Jan 16, 2000 at 17:56:41 -0800, Matthew Jacob wrote: > > > > > Hmm... I guess I was confusing this with the S.M.A.R

Re: looking for victims, err, uh, 'volunteers'

2000-01-16 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Sun, Jan 16, 2000 at 17:56:41 -0800, Matthew Jacob wrote: > > > 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 > > reallocati

Re: looking for victims, err, uh, 'volunteers'

2000-01-16 Thread Matthew Jacob
> 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).

Re: looking for victims, err, uh, 'volunteers'

2000-01-16 Thread Chris Dillon
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,

Re: looking for victims, err, uh, 'volunteers'

2000-01-16 Thread Matthew Jacob
> > 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. >

Re: looking for victims, err, uh, 'volunteers'

2000-01-15 Thread Chris Dillon
On Fri, 14 Jan 2000, Matthew Jacob wrote: > I've just committed into -current a bare-bones SES/SAF-TE driver that will > be fleshed out somewhat over the next couple of days, but will remain a > bare bones driver. It's a stub right now (just matches && attaches), but > the rest of it will show up