Hum... Not 100% sure but I think "DSTAT ALL" shows LDEV-TYPE of C5447A for AutoRaid 12H... Maybe this could be used... Obviously, if Autoraid is not mounted, it may not work... -- ================================================== Denis St-Amand (Remove "removeit." from email address) ================================================== "Atwood, Tim (DVM)" <[log in to unmask]> wrote in message news:abu55d02sd@enews2.newsguy.com... > Does anyone have any suggestions how I might programmatically detect if an > AutoRAID (12H) was installed on a particular HP3000. > > We have multiple HP3000s with different hardware configurations. Right now > only one has an AutoRAID 12H. For ease of maintenance we try to keep all our > start-up jobs and procedures identical between machines. We try to have the > start-up jobs detect the actual conditions of the machine before starting > machine specific procedures. > > The Array Manager daemon (ARMSRVD) and syslog daemon (SYSLOGD) only need to > be running on machines with an AutoRAID. I want to detect from inside a > program whether an AutoRAID is installed. Only when an AutoRAID is detected > would ARMSRVD and SYSLOGD be started. > > One possible item to detect are the device link files for the AutoRAID. But > I have not yet been able to figure out what these files are named or where > they are located. Does anyone know this? Any other ideas how to detect an > AutoRAID? > > MPE 6.0 PP2. > > Timothy Atwood > Holtenwood Computing > http://www.holtenwood.bc.ca/computing/ > for Domtar Vancouver Mill > (Opinions expressed are mine and do not reflect Domtar, yada-yada-yada. No > people real or imagined... No animals were harmed in the typing of this > email.) > > * To join/leave the list, search archives, change list settings, * > * etc., please visit http://raven.utc.edu/archives/hp3000-l.html * > * To join/leave the list, search archives, change list settings, * * etc., please visit http://raven.utc.edu/archives/hp3000-l.html *