Re: Dell Perc3 raid cards

2003-07-01 Thread Gareth Hopkins
On Tue, 1 Jul 2003, Matthew Bettinger wrote:

MBHello,
MB
MB We are looking for a dell box to run a small (MySQL) database on and
MBwas curious as to how well the raid card support is in these newer
MBmachines.  A box that would meet our needs would be something along the
MBlines of a power edge 1650.  These come with  PERC3-DI,128MB Battery
MBBacked Cache RAID cards.  Does anyone have an experience using these
MBcards with bsd and,  actually replacing a disk (raid 5) using the raid
MButilis that come with the 4.8 branch of BSD ?

Howdie,

We are running 4.8-Stable on 2650's and are very happy.
Replacement disks for failed drives are automatically configured and added to
whatever raid you are running.

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Re: How to tell what hardware in server ?

2003-03-06 Thread Gareth Hopkins
On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, Wayne Pascoe wrote:

WPHi all,
WP
WPIs there any way to tell what hardware is in a server without rebooting
WPit and checking dmesg?
WP
WPI'm just looking for Processor type, memory, stuff like that. I know I
WPcan get the number of processors with sysctl, but nothing else there :(

Howdie,

cat /var/run/dmesg.boot may help.

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Raid status on Dell 2650 with Dell PERC 3/Di controller

2003-02-02 Thread Gareth Hopkins
Howdie,

Is there a program available that will give me the status of
the raid configuration using 4.7 Stable ?

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Re: Raid status on Dell 2650 with Dell PERC 3/Di controller

2003-02-02 Thread Gareth Hopkins
On Sun, 2 Feb 2003, Jud wrote:

JOn Sun, 2 Feb 2003 16:03:39 +0200 (SAST), Gareth Hopkins [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Jwrote:
J
J Howdie,
J
J Is there a program available that will give me the status of
J the raid configuration using 4.7 Stable ?
J
Jatacontrol status
J
JFor more, see the atacontrol man page.

Howdie,

This is only viable for IDE disks as far as I know. I have 2 x
36 Gb SCSI disks

[root@foobar] / # atacontrol list
ATA channel 0:
Master: acd0 TEAC CD-ROM CD-224E/K.9A ATA/ATAPI rev 0
Slave:   no device present
ATA channel 1:
Master:  no device present
Slave:   no device present


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