Re: CVS commit: src/sys/dev/pci

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 10:52:34AM -0800, Jason Thorpe wrote:
> 
> On Feb 28, 2008, at 10:20 AM, Juan RP wrote:
> 
> >Useful if you want to be notified if any drive in a volume has failed.
> >
> >/etc/powerd/scripts/sensor_drive is used for this, and I want at least
> >to be emailed when such state happens.
> 
> right, I don't see how this is related to environmental sensors /  
> power management.

Power management probably not, but environmental sensors definitively:
(some) drive enclosures, or disk controllers, have sensors to see if a drive
is present or not.
I see no reasons to not extend this to what a RAID controllers can report.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
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