monitoring raid arrays

[Tamouh H.]

> 
> 
> On Jun 19, 2006, at 10:12 AM, Elliot Finley wrote:
> 
> >> Port:   aaccli-1.0
> >> Path:   /usr/ports/sysutils/aaccli
> >> Info:   Adaptec SCSI RAID administration tool
> >> Maint:  bms at FreeBSD.org
> >> B-deps:
> >> R-deps:
> >> WWW:    http://support.dell.com/
> >>
> >> Never tried it but it looks like your best bet.
> >
> > Yes, I saw this too.  Doesn't work on 6.x though because of the 
> > MAKEDEV requirement.
> 
> I am not running the Dell version but the "actual" generic 
> adaptec Linux version with the Linux compat stuff installed 
> and it works fine with 6.0.  You should be able to Google and 
> see what people did to make it work.  And the same thing 
> probably? should work with the Dell version?
> 
> Chad
> 

The aaccli works only with certain Adaptec firmware. If the adaptec card has the newest firmwares (I believe the ones in April + ), the aaccli will not work.

Official Adaptec stand as it appears that they don't have storage management on FreeBSD.