[OpenIndiana-discuss] hotswap strategy

[Pete Ashdown]

On 05/27/2011 02:10 AM, Mark wrote:
> 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
>

Any recommendations for a 2U SAS/SATA controller that does have ses2?


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