camcontrol and IDAD0

tonix (Antonio Nati) tonix at interazioni.it
Thu Sep 1 16:56:22 GMT 2005


Thanks Scott.

So are they an emulation of ATA devices? Also atacontrol doesn't 
report anything about them.

Tonino

At 17.39 01/09/2005, Scott Long wrote:
>The IDA devices are not under the CAM subsystem, so camcontrol will 
>have no effect on them.  I assume that you are looking for a way to 
>monitor and manage the controller and arrays?  That requires a 
>custom application that knows how to speak to the controller firmware.  Even
>if IDA were under CAM, camcontrol would not be able to do this.
>
>Scott
>
>Antonio Nati - Inter at zioni wrote:
>>How can I handle Compaq Smart Raid disks using camcontrol?
>>I've looked a lot around, and found sometimes the same question, 
>>but no answers:
>>I've an internal Smart Raid card (on a DL360) handling a mirrored 
>>set of disks.
>>Boot says:
>>Aug  5 21:23:13 ia-srv01 kernel: idad0: <Compaq Logical Drive> on ida0
>>Aug  5 21:23:13 ia-srv01 kernel: idad0: 17359MB (35553120 sectors), 
>>blocksize=512
>>RAID is working properly, but I have no way (apparently) to check 
>>it within FreeBSD.
>>Command "camcontrol devlist -v" returns
>>scbus-1 on xpt0 bus 0:
>><  >                               at scbus-1 target -1 lun -1 (xpt0)
>>atacontrol does not says anything about this disk.
>>What can I do? Is there any other resource/command available in 
>>order to solve this problem?
>>Thanks,
>>Tonino
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