Thanks for your reply, Well, you can configure the syslog.conf to get the messages at the specified place. Going a level below i.e. how the message is generated in the first instance . The smart array 5i card should trigger the drive failure first. If we talk about storageworks 4300 . The fault bus signal (SWAP) detects the removal or insertion of storeage device on a SCSI bus , causing the signal to generate a logic low pulse. This pulse is detected by EMU and an amber light is glown . unfortunately there is no beep sound. That was my first question is it done deleberately (design) or something broken in my hardware.
syslog will only get message if the driver will generate anything that was my second question why the cciss does not generate any error when the drive is removed . I guess there is some sort of monitoring utility (SNMP or something that logs the error conditon in proc or syslog) that Compaq provides. Getting that utility was the ultimate goal of this posting .
cheers
Bobby
bobby
