From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mikhail Yakshin Subject: [ANNOUNCE] Einarc - universal RAID management/monitoring tool - v1.2 released Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2008 15:58:06 +0400 Message-ID: <484D1ACE.7030802@altlinux.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids Hello! I'm pleased to announce new release of Einarc project - an universal=20 RAID management/monitoring tool. Version 1.2 had almost half a year development cycle and sports the=20 following new stuff: * Support for new RAID devices: newer Adaptec adapters using arcco= nf. * New objects =E2=80=9Cbbu=E2=80=9D and =E2=80=9Cfirmware=E2=80=9D= are introduced: now it=E2=80=99s=20 possible to get information about BBU and read/write firmware to=20 supported adapters. * More strict =E2=80=9Cadapter info=E2=80=9D report: it outputs se= rial number and=20 tries to pinpoint a particular adapter using PCI IDs, if possible. * Updates for existing devices: o aaccli: now it downloads and uses later, more acceptable=20 version, not linked against arts library. Note, however, that=20 Adaptec_Storage_Manager-Linux_v2.10.00 is a huge ~36M download. o areca: update to v1.80A_71012. o megacli: updated to v1.01.27. * Multiple stability, metadata and rare occurance fixes for all=20 modules. * Improved build system. * =E2=80=9Craid-wizard-passthrough=E2=80=9D can be used to handle = smaller groups of=20 HDDs (not all available devices). As always, I'd be really happy to hear any opinions / thoughts / featur= e=20 requests on this project and I hope it would come useful to someone :)=20 Einarc can be reached at http://www.inquisitor.ru/doc/einarc/ for downloading and documentation. --=20 WBR, Mikhail Yakshin AKA GreyCat -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" i= n the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html