Table of Contents

• Chapter 1  Preliminaries
  • 1.1  Preamble
  • 1.2  Acknowledgements and Thanks
  • 1.3  New Versions
• Chapter 2  Introduction
  • 2.1  5070 features5070 Main Features
  • 2.2  Background
    • 2.2.1  RAID levelsRaid Levels
    • 2.2.2  RAID linearRAID Linear
    • 2.2.3  RAID 1Level 1
    • 2.2.4  stripingStriping
    • 2.2.5  RAID 0Level 0
    • 2.2.6  RAID 2RAID 3Level 2 and 3
    • 2.2.7  RAID 4Level 4
    • 2.2.8  RAID 5Level 5
• Chapter 3  Installation
  • 3.1  compatibilitySBUS Controller Compatibility
  • 3.2  hardware installationHardware Installation Procedure
    • 3.2.1  Serial Terminal
    • 3.2.2  Hard Drive Plant
  • 3.3  5070 Onboard Configuration
    • 3.3.1  Main Screen Options
    • 3.3.2  [Q]uit
    • 3.3.3  [R]aidSets:
    • 3.3.4  [H]ostports:
    • 3.3.5  [S]pares:
    • 3.3.6  [M]onitor:
    • 3.3.7  [G]eneral:
    • 3.3.8  [P]robe
    • 3.3.9  Example RAID Configuration Session
  • 3.4  Linux Configuration
    • 3.4.1  Existing Linux Installation
    • 3.4.2  New Linux Installation
  • 3.5  Maintenance
    • 3.5.1  spares, activatingActivating a spare
    • 3.5.2  re-integrating repaired driveRe-integrating a repaired drive into the RAID (levels 3 and 5)
  • 3.6  Troubleshooting / Error Messages
    • 3.6.1  Out of band temperature detected...
    • 3.6.2  ... failed ... cannot have more than 1 faulty backend.
    • 3.6.3  When booting I see: ... Sun disklabel: bad magic 0000 ... unknown partition table.
  • 3.7  Bugs
  • 3.8  Frequently Asked Questions
    • 3.8.1  How do I reset/erase the onboard configuration?
    • 3.8.2  How can I tell if a drive in my RAID has failed?
  • 3.9  command referenceAdvanced Topics: 5070 Command Reference
    • 3.9.1  autobootAUTOBOOT - script to automatically create all raid sets and scsi monitors
    • 3.9.2  AUTOFAULT - script to automatically mark a backend faulty after a drive failure
    • 3.9.3  AUTOREPAIR - script to automatically allocate a spare and reconstruct a raid set
    • 3.9.4  BIND - combine elements of the namespace
    • 3.9.5  BUZZER - get the state or turn on or off the buzzer
    • 3.9.6  CACHE - display information about and delete cache ranges
    • 3.9.7  CACHEDUMP - Dump the contents of the write cache to battery backed-up ram
    • 3.9.8  CACHERESTORE - Load the cache with data from battery backed-up ram
    • 3.9.9  CAT - concatenate files and print on the standard output
    • 3.9.10  CMP - compare the contents of 2 files
    • 3.9.11  CONS - console device for Husky
    • 3.9.12  DD - copy a file (disk, etc)
    • 3.9.13  DEVSCMP - Compare a file's size against a given value
    • 3.9.14  DFORMAT- Perform formatting functions on a backend disk drive
    • 3.9.15  DIAGS - script to run a diagnostic on a given device
    • 3.9.16  DPART - edit a scsihd disk partition table
    • 3.9.17  DUP - open file descriptor device
    • 3.9.18  ECHO - display a line of text
    • 3.9.19  ENV- environment variables file system
    • 3.9.20  ENVIRON - RaidRunner Global environment variables - names and effects
    • 3.9.21  EXEC - cause arguments to be executed in place of this shell
    • 3.9.22  EXIT - exit a K9 process
    • 3.9.23  EXPR - evaluation of numeric expressions
    • 3.9.24  FALSE - returns the K9 false status
    • 3.9.25  FIFO - bi-directional fifo buffer of fixed size
    • 3.9.26  GET - select one value from list
    • 3.9.27  GETIV - get the value an internal RaidRunner variable
    • 3.9.28  HELP - print a list of commands and their synopses
    • 3.9.29  HUSKY - shell for K9 kernel
    • 3.9.30  HWCONF - print various hardware configuration details
    • 3.9.31  HWMON - monitoring daemon for temperature, fans, PSUs.
    • 3.9.32  INTERNALS - Internal variables used by RaidRunner to change dynamics of running kernel
    • 3.9.33  KILL - send a signal to the nominated process
    • 3.9.34  LED- turn on/off LED's on RaidRunner
    • 3.9.35  LFLASH- flash a led on RaidRunner
    • 3.9.36  LINE - copies one line of standard input to standard output
    • 3.9.37  LLENGTH - return the number of elements in the given list
    • 3.9.38  LOG - like zero with additional logging of accesses
    • 3.9.39  LRANGE - extract a range of elements from the given list
    • 3.9.40  LS - list the files in a directory
    • 3.9.41  LSEARCH - find the a pattern in a list
    • 3.9.42  LSUBSTR - replace a character in all elements of a list
    • 3.9.43  MEM - memory mapped file (system)
    • 3.9.44  MDEBUG - exercise and display statistics about memory allocation
    • 3.9.45  MKDIR - create directory (or directories)
    • 3.9.46  MKDISKFS - script to create a disk filesystem
    • 3.9.47  MKHOSTFS - script to create a host port filesystem
    • 3.9.48  MKRAID - script to create a raid given a line of output of rconf
    • 3.9.49  MKRAIDFS - script to create a raid filesystem
    • 3.9.50  MKSMON - script to start the scsi monitor daemon smon
    • 3.9.51  MKSTARGD - script to initialize a scsi target daemon for a given raid set
    • 3.9.52  MSTARGD - monitor for stargd
    • 3.9.53  NICE - Change the K9 run-queue priority of a K9 process
    • 3.9.54  NULL- file to throw away output in
    • 3.9.55  PARACC - display information about hardware parity accelerator
    • 3.9.56  PEDIT - Display/modify SCSI backend Mode Parameters Pages
    • 3.9.57  PIPE - two way interprocess communication
    • 3.9.58  PRANKS - print or set the accessible backend ranks for the current controller
    • 3.9.59  PRINTENV - print one or all GLOBAL environment variables
    • 3.9.60  PS - report process status
    • 3.9.61  PSCSIRES - print SCSI-2 reservation table for all or specific monikers
    • 3.9.62  PSTATUS - print the values of hardware status registers
    • 3.9.63  RAIDACTION- script to gather/reset stats or stop/start a raid set's stargd
    • 3.9.64  RAID0 - raid 0 device
    • 3.9.65  RAID1 - raid 1 device
    • 3.9.66  RAID3 - raid 3 device
    • 3.9.67  RAID4 - raid 4 device
    • 3.9.68  RAID5 - raid 5 device
    • 3.9.69  RAM - ram based file system
    • 3.9.70  RANDIO - simulate random reads and writes
    • 3.9.71  RCONF, SPOOL, HCONF, MCONF, CORRUPT-CONFIG - raid configuration and spares management
    • 3.9.72  REBOOT - exit K9 on target hardware + return to monitor
    • 3.9.73  REBUILD - raid set reconstruction utility
    • 3.9.74  REPAIR - script to allocate a spare to a raid set's failed backend
    • 3.9.75  REPLACE - script to restore a backend in a raid set
    • 3.9.76  RM - remove the file (or files)
    • 3.9.77  RMON - Power-On Diagnostics and Bootstrap
    • 3.9.78  RRSTRACE - disassemble scsihpmtr monitor data
    • 3.9.79  RSIZE - estimate the memory usage for a given raid set
    • 3.9.80  SCN2681 - access a scn2681 (serial IO device) as console
    • 3.9.81  SCSICHIPS - print various details about a controller's scsi chips
    • 3.9.82  SCSIHD - SCSI hard disk device (a SCSI initiator)
    • 3.9.83  SCSIHP - SCSI target device
    • 3.9.84  SET - set (or clear) an environment variable
    • 3.9.85  SCSIHPMTR - turn on host port debugging
    • 3.9.86  SETENV - set a GLOBAL environment variable
    • 3.9.87  SDLIST - Set or display an internal list of attached disk drives
    • 3.9.88  SETIV - set an internal RaidRunner variable
    • 3.9.89  SHOWBAT - display information about battery backed-up ram
    • 3.9.90  SHUTDOWN - script to place the RaidRunner into a shutdown or quiescent state
    • 3.9.91  SLEEP - sleep for the given number of seconds
    • 3.9.92  SMON - RaidRunner SCSI monitor daemon
    • 3.9.93  SOS - pulse the buzzer to emit sos's
    • 3.9.94  SPEEDTST - Generate a set number of sequential writes then reads
    • 3.9.95  SPIND - Spin up or down a disk device
    • 3.9.96  SPINDLE - Modify Spindle Synchronization on a disk device
    • 3.9.97  SRANKS - set the accessible backend ranks for a controller
    • 3.9.98  STARGD - daemon for SCSI-2 target
    • 3.9.99  STAT - get status information on the named files (or stdin)
    • 3.9.100     STATS - Print cumulative performance statistics on a Raid Set or Cache Range
    • 3.9.101     STRING - perform a string operation on a given value
    • 3.9.102     SUFFIX - Suffixes permitted on some big decimal numbers
    • 3.9.103     SYSLOG - device to send system messages for logging
    • 3.9.104     SYSLOGD - initialize or access messages in the system log area
    • 3.9.105     TEST - condition evaluation command
    • 3.9.106     TIME - Print the number of seconds since boot (or reset of clock)
    • 3.9.107     TRAP - intercept a signal and perform some action
    • 3.9.108     TRUE - returns the K9 true status
    • 3.9.109     STTY or TTY - print the user's terminal mount point or terminfo status
    • 3.9.110     UNSET - delete one or more environment variables
    • 3.9.111     UNSETENV - unset (delete) a GLOBAL environment variable
    • 3.9.112     VERSION - print out the version of the RaidRunner kernel
    • 3.9.113     WAIT - wait for a process (or my children) to terminate
    • 3.9.114     WARBLE - periodically pulse the buzzer
    • 3.9.115     XD- dump given file(s) in hexa-decimal to standard out
    • 3.9.116     ZAP - write zeros to a file
    • 3.9.117     ZCACHE - Manipulate the zone optimization IO table of a Raid Set's cache
    • 3.9.118     ZERO - file when read yields zeros continuously
    • 3.9.119     ZLABELS - Write zeros to the front and end of Raid Sets
  • 3.10  Advanced Topics: SCSI Monitor Daemon (SMON)
  • 3.11  Further Reading