[CentOS] OT: LSI SAS1068e / Perc6/iR RAID Health

SilverTip257 silvertip257 at gmail.com
Fri Feb 15 20:47:17 UTC 2013


On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 2:43 PM, <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote:

> SilverTip257 wrote:
> > Is anybody here monitoring Dell SAS6/iR RAID health?
> > I have a mix of CentOS 5.9 and 6.3 installs on the PE1950s.
> <snip>
> Um, um, er, uh... how old are the PE1950's? Let me urge you in the
> *strongest* terms to get your PO's out for replacements, yesterday if
> possible.
>

I hear you.
Frankly, I have to work with what hardware I'm given.  Even if that means
making a shoe string into an Ethernet cable.


>
> We had a lot of them. Then, about two years ago, they started dying -
> inside of a month, we had three? four? die, and it continued. What was
> happening was the RAID controller - if you really want, I can go look up,
> in old emails, the error number that showed on the LCD screen. When that
> happened, it was gone, dead.
>
> I will admit to being amazed at the quality control, that they *all*
> started dying in such a short timespan.
>

I know what that's like ... you'd be surprised what ugly archaic hardware
I'm replacing with these 1950, 2900, and 2950 servers.


>
>       mark
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