Thanks, I had checked man 'ses' and didn't find anything. I will play with
sesd.

Scott...

-----Original Message-----
From: Manuel Bouyer [mailto:bouyer@antioche.eu.org]
Sent: Sunday, May 19, 2002 11:27 AM
To: Scott R. Burns
Cc: netbsd-help@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: New Dell 2300 PowerEdge


On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 10:11:25AM -0400, Scott R. Burns wrote:
> I have just picked up a used Dell PowerEdge 2300 dual 333 machine.
> Everything is working
> fine with V1.5.2 and I see that MP operation is coming fast. I have one
> question on this
> hardware. Upon boot the following is printed:
>
> ses0 at scsibus0 target 6 lun 0: <DELL, 1x6 U2W SCSI BP, 5.35> SCSI2
> 3/processor fixed
> ses0: SAF-TE Compliant Device
>
> My research shows it to be some type of RAID or smart SCSI backplace
> controller. Is there
> a utility I can make use of this with NetBSD ? Does it say allow me to
take
> a SCSI
> disk offline so I can remove/replace it why the bus active ? Is it a RAID
> controller ?

SES is "SCSI Environmental Services". From the ses(4) man page:
The environmental services class generally
are enclosure devices that provide environmental information such as num-
ber of power supplies (and state), temperature, device slots, and so on.

See sesd(8) for how to use it.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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