Hi,

der Mouse wrote:
[...]
> The only thing I can think of which would justify this would be if one
> of the drives in ld1 has failed.  But the front panel lights give no
> indication, and dmesg contains nothing at all from either twe or ld
> since boot.  Is there any way to check the status of the arrays without
> bringing the machine down to the BIOS?  If not, any idea how hard it
> would be to hack such a thing into the driver?  Doing RAID seems
> semi-useless if you don't hear about drive failures in time to replace
> them before a second drive fails and you lose data.
[...]

I have a slightly OT question: Does OpenBSD's bioctl 
(http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=bioctl) interface fit to 
NetBSD's idea of "doing things right"? I'm curious because it's one of 
the things I presently find attractive about OpenBSD (CARP and IPMI 
support being other examples ...).

Regards,

rudolf