[CentOS] 3ware SATA RAID Card
Dan Trainor
dan.trainor at gmail.com
Tue Jul 11 18:42:03 UTC 2006
Justin Piszcz wrote:
>
>
> On Sun, 9 Jul 2006, Jon wrote:
>
>> I've a 3ware Escalade 8006-2 and run Centos 4.2 using the latest
>> kernel 2.6.9-34.0.2.ELsmp. I see that the card comes with some disk
>> management tools called 3DM2 Management Utility. Is this ok to
>> install? Is it good for reporting failed drives?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Jon
>>
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>
> Jon,
>
> Yeah, it runs a daemon that you can configure via web or via the config
> file and you can configure it to let you know when the array is
> degraded, etc.
>
> Justin.
>
>
Hi -
The only thing I use it for really is to alert me as to when drives run
amuck. It can also be somewhat useful for rebuilding a degraded array,
however, I believe this should be done using the actual BIOS. Remember,
this also means downtime, however.
Hope that helps!
Thanks
-dan
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