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I am implementing Solaris 7/x86 on an IBM Netfinity platform using the IBM ServeRAID 3L card. According to IBM the Solaris driver for the card (chs) was written by Sun, and they cannot offer support for it.
The driver itself works fine. My problem is that there seems to be no way to monitor the status of the physical drives hooked to the controller. This functionality is provided by IBM's IPSMON utility on a number of other Unix platforms (Linux, SCO, Unixware, etc...).
If anyone has implemented such as utility and would be willing to share the ioctl parameters I would appreciate hearing from them.
Thanks.

Hi! There are no public ioctls for the chs driver.
The best thing I can think of is to use the USCSI ioctl to pass your own scsi commands to the raid unit directly.
Take a look at:
http://soldc.sun.com/developer/support/driver/wps/uscsi/uscsi.html
Hope that is some help,
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