Release Notes mpt-status 1.1.6 (2006-03-06)
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Codename: Brown Paper Bag I

About
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The mpt-status software is a query tool to access the running configuration and
status of LSI SCSI HBAs. This is a heavily modified version of the original
mpt-status-1.0 tool written by Matt Braithwaite. mpt-status allows you to
monitor the health and status of your RAID setup.

Currently supported and tested HBAs are:

LSI 1030 SCSI RAID storage controller
LSI SAS1064 SCSI RAID storage controller

Since the tool is using the MPI (message passing interface) changes are high
that the basic information regarding RAID status will be available for all
LSI based controllers. Just give it a try and report back.


Requirements
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You should have mptbase and mptctl loaded or compiled into the kernel. If you
are to compile mpt-status by yourself, make sure you have the kernel source
installed, or else it will fail. This deficiency will hopefully be addressed
soon.


General Information
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This release brings you following fixes and new things:

o Removed debugging statements in the normal output

Please skip version 1.1.5!


Upgrade
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No problems are expected when upgrading from the previous (1.1.4) version.


Outlook
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The next version will bring 64bit support and based on this, sanitized kernel
headers. SuSE and Debian folks have already started this, however only for a
limited range of machine types. Another thing that will be worked on is the
much requested report of the spare disk and a /proc/mdstat like percentage
output to completion of the synchronisation process.

The next version will probably also break your scripts, because the output
format will slightely be changed to make more sense. This is a heads-up for the
distro maintainters.
