'drive failure indication???'

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Subject: drive failure indication???
From: "Kruse, Rick" <Rick_Kruse () securecomputing ! com>
Date: 2003-11-19 21:17:17
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I am the lead architect for the Sidewinder Firewall development team
here at Secure Computing Corporation.  We use the 6650 platform as one
of our appliance firewall systems, and slot a perc3/dc controller for
RAID.  An issue has been pointed out by our customers that the current
driver does not provide a notice when the a drive fails. Looking through
the source code also didn't help.

Question: Is there a status indication that maybe we can check on a
normal read/write/etc. event that will provide a drive failure status
WITHOUT having to probe the drive?   This customer does not have a
person physically in the room to monitor for the 'beep' failure from the
AMI controller.

So can you help me?

Rick Kruse

Lead Systems Archtiect

Secure Computing Corp

651-628-2758

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I am the lead architect for the Sidewinder Firewall
development team here at Secure Computing Corporation.&nbsp; We use the 6650
platform as one of our appliance firewall systems, and slot a perc3/dc
controller for RAID.&nbsp; An issue has been pointed out by our customers that
the current driver does not provide a notice when the a drive fails. Looking
through the source code also didn&#8217;t help.

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font-family:Arial'>&nbsp;</span></font></p>

Question: Is there a status indication that maybe we can
check on a normal read/write/etc. event that will provide a drive failure
status WITHOUT having to probe the drive? &nbsp;&nbsp;This customer does not
have a person physically in the room to monitor for the &#8216;beep&#8217;
failure from the AMI controller.

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font-family:Arial'>&nbsp;</span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>So can you help me?</span></font></p>

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font-family:Arial'>&nbsp;</span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Rick Kruse</span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Lead Systems Archtiect</span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Secure Computing Corp</span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>651-628-2758</span></font></p>

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