[OpenIndiana-discuss] hotswap strategy

Pete Ashdown pashdown at xmission.com
Wed May 25 21:13:11 UTC 2011


I'm having trouble figuring out how to hotswap dead drives on a potential
fileserver I am building.  I'm using an LSI Internal SATA/SAS 9211-8i &
9211-4i to connect 12 SATA drives on a Supermicro backplane that supports
SES-2.  I am finding conflicting information as to whether OpenIndiana can
light the bay LED of the failed drive on command.  If it can, how do I do it?
If it can't, how do I identify which bay to swap the drive out of?  Right now
I've got a mapping of drive serial #'s to bays, but that isn't ideal for a
group of admins to execute upon.

Also, although the backplane supports SES-2, I'm not seeing /dev/es/ses0.  I
installed system/io/tests, but I don't have sestopo in that package.



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