[OpenIndiana-discuss] hotswap strategy

[Mark]

On 26/05/2011 9:13 a.m., Pete Ashdown wrote:
> 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.
>

The LSI SAS2 hba controllers don't seem to have ses2 support at present.
As far as I could tell, the ses functionality isn't present in the 
firmware or drivers of the sas2 products.

see http://kb.lsi.com/KnowledgebaseArticle15874.aspx





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