Re: twe driver?

[Christoph Schneeberger <cschnee@box.telemedia.ch>]

I have a few 3ware controllers here, and the only way to rebuild a 
failed array I have found so far, is booting with a debian rescue CD and 
wait some hours (depending on array size). I think the 3ware folks are 
not giving out essential technical details for OpenBSD to be able to 
initiate the rebuild. Pls see some past messages on misc@ bout this.

HTH,
Christoph Schneeberger


John Eisenschmidt wrote:

>You should be able to do it from the 3ware console in the firmware.
>Not elegant (have to bring system down), but whatever gets the job
>done I suppose.
>
>It *should* auto rebuild in background if set to do so in the bios.
>
>Rumor has it that L. V. Lammert (lvl@omnitec.net) said:
>  
>
>>I have a Escallade 6410 configured as RAID 5 with 4x40 drives. One of the
>>drives died, so I replaced it. Reconfigured the array in BIOS, no problem.
>>
>>The problem IS that the twe driver apparently is not 'seeing' the 'ready
>>for rebuild status'! Tried 3Ware support - they suggested upgrading the
>>6410 BIOS. No Joy.
>>
>>I know 3Ware has been flakey in support, .. but does anyone have a way to
>>get the twe driver to rebuild the array (if I understand the linkage
>>between the BIOS and driver correctly)?
>>
>>         Lee
>>
>>============================================
>>    Leland V. Lammert                                lvl@omnitec.net
>>       Chief Scientist                         Omnitec Corporation
>>   Network/Internet Consultants              www.omnitec.net
>>============================================
>>    
>>
>
>--
>John W. Eisenschmidt (jweisen@eisenschmidt.org)
>  http://www.eisenschmidt.org/jweisen/pgp.html
>
>[demime 0.98d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature]