two questions - one scsi, one 3ware RAID

[Moore, Eric Dean]

mlxcontrol


Josh Brooks wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> First, I have a system running a mylex SCSI raid controller:
> 
> mlx0: <Mylex version 4 RAID interface> mem 
> 0xf6afe000-0xf6afffff irq 11 at
> device 8.1 on pci1
> mlx0: DAC960PRL, 1 channel, firmware 4.08-0-33, 4MB RAM
> mlxd0: <Mylex System Drive> on mlx0
> mlxd0: 8748MB (17915904 sectors) RAID 1 (online)
> mlxd1: <Mylex System Drive> on mlx0
> mlxd1: 17501MB (35842048 sectors) RAID 1 (online)
> 
> My question is, is there a command line utility/diagnostic 
> for this card
> similar to the `aaccli` that I can use for the aacX cards ?
> 
> ---
> 
> Second, I am thinking of buying a 3ware 7500-8 card and using it with
> FreeBSD 5.x and using the 3dmd command line utility to manage 
> it.  My plan
> is to run the system and hot swap disks (either to solve 
> drive failures or
> to just add more drives to the system, since I won't fill it 
> up at first)
> - all of this without ever powering down the system, or 
> entering the 3ware
> BIOS - I want to hot swap and configure with the 3dmd CLI.
> 
> Is this a reasonable expectation ?
> 
> Thanks
> 
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