hi we are certainly moving off topic here, but Mktg wanted some story for Disk failures so the external RAID was proposed. Not only that it might work for AW-70 family too :-) As I mentioned before, there has to be a communications path to the RAID controller before a tie-in can be made to I/A Sys Mgmt. Nowadays maybe a SAN solution would work for most customers. Trying to get back on topic, is your AW51D ok now ? Are there any Idiot Lights on ? wrb > >Ture enough. However in this case thier is a significant difference in what >Foxboro calls "mirrored drives", and what they call "RAID 1". Mirrored >drives are provided in Sun enclosures, and are connected to 2 SCSI >controlers in teh Sun Box. The mirrorig is done using software. This is Sun >provided software, that gets a Foxboro supplied "wrapper" script called >dft. By using the Sun provided software one can check the status of both of >the drives, and generate email/alarms.paging when one fails. > >What Foxboro provided on our latest project, however was an external "RAD >1" box (yest that really mirrored). However it is conected to the SUN box >using SCSI cables (not certain at the moment if there just 1 or 2). So, I'm >looking for the vendor supplied software that will let me query this >external box for it's disk statuses, in order to generate alarms/emails >when one of these fails, rather than waiting for the 2nd one to fail! > >You would think Foxboro would hanlde this as a system alarms, but it >appears that they don not. > > > >-- >"They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve >neither liberty nor safety." > -- Benjamin Franklin > _________________________________________________________________ Join the world?s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com _______________________________________________________________________ This mailing list is neither sponsored nor endorsed by Invensys Process Systems (formerly The Foxboro Company). Use the info you obtain here at your own risks. Read http://www.thecassandraproject.org/disclaimer.html foxboro mailing list: http://www.freelists.org/list/foxboro to subscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=join to unsubscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=leave