atom feed7 messages in org.freebsd.freebsd-scsiRE: DPT management binaries for FreeBSD?
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Charles OwensAug 13, 1998 12:56 pm 
Scott DonovanAug 13, 1998 3:59 pm 
TomAug 13, 1998 7:02 pm 
TomAug 13, 1998 9:51 pm 
Simon ShapiroAug 14, 1998 9:06 pm 
Charles OwensAug 18, 1998 1:04 pm 
Simon ShapiroAug 18, 1998 2:31 pm 
Subject:RE: DPT management binaries for FreeBSD?
From:Charles Owens (owe@enc.edu)
Date:Aug 18, 1998 1:04:01 pm
List:org.freebsd.freebsd-scsi

On Sat, 15 Aug 1998, Simon Shapiro wrote:

On 13-Aug-98 Charles Owens wrote:

Simon,

I looked under ftp://ftp.simon-shapiro.org/crash/tools and noted a number of FreeBSD binaries with names like "dtp_dm". Could this per chance be the native mgmt software that Tom is talking about below?

If so, do I need a /dev/dpt? How can a make one (/dev/MAKEDEV doesn't know anything about it, of course)?

These will not work in 2.2, only in 3.0-current; Too much retrofitting for what is considered a stable version of the O/S.

Okay then, two questions:

1. Without these tools is there any way for me, with a 2.2-stable system to: * determine array status (e.g. "drive 3 has failed")

* issue basic commands like "rebuild array" or "make drive X a hot spare."

I'm mostly interested in being able to fully recover from a single drive failure without having to reboot and run the DOS Storage Manager.

... and no, I don't have DPT drives and enclosures (grrr...) which I understand would take care of this for me.

2. Would you consider 3.0-current generally stable enough for me to use for a large storage system? (about 52 GB usable space, 4 RAID-5 arrays ccd'd together, as you suggested) It will be doing little other than serving up this disk space to a handfull of other FreeBSD boxes via NFSv2.

If I did use 3.0-current, will these tools from your ftp site allow me to do what I describe above?

Thanks much,

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