LSILogic MegaRAID and "camcontrol:cam_lookup_pass:CAMGETPASSTHRU ioctl failed

[Per Hubinette]

>Glenn Dawson writes:
>| At 02:40 PM 3/16/2005, you wrote:
>| >Hello,
>| >
>| >I have a variety of systems that I inherited, with a variety of
hardware
>| >RAIDs.  Most systems are 4.8-4.10.  I want to be able to monitor the
>| >various RAIDs reliably so that I can fix failures faster, but it is
a
>| >bear.
>| >
>| >META QUESTION: Can anyone wiser in the ways of SCSI offer a clue?
Is
>| >                            there a "best practices" approach to 
>| > monitoring hardware
>| >                            RAIDs on FreeBSD?  Or suggestions and
advice on
>| >                formulating such an approach?
>| 
>| LSI has a command line utility here:
>|
<http://www.lsilogic.com/downloads/downloads.do?product=2414&download_ty
pe=all>
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>| 
>| it's written for linux, but it might work under FreeBSD with linux 
>| emulation enabled.
>| I haven't tried it yet, but I can later tonight.  I'll post my
findings to 
>| the list.
>
>No they won't work since there is no Linux compatibility shim for the 
>ioctl's.  Also the MegaMonitor utilities leaks shared memory under 
>Linux and dies.  Fixes from LSI are slow to come by.
>
>The updated version of the Linux tools do tend to work better.  Running
the
>ancient FreeBSD MegaMonitor does bad things to your system.  It may
>work once or twice but can start breaking other programs on the system.
>
>Doug A.
 
So if you aren't using MegaMonitor what are you people using to monitor
these RAID controllers are you restarting 
the servers and looking at the BIOS information to know that everything
is ok?
 
Per