I'd have to say that the 3ware tw_cli is the best raid controller interface I've used. The 3dm stuff is okay, but tw_cli puts you in control. If you're looking for a raid card to make management easy, the 3ware cards are definitely the ones to buy. 
<br><br>One neat trick I like to use to monitor a raid array rebuild is:<br><br>watch tw_cli info c0<br><br>That will give you the tw_cli output, updated every 2 seconds over top of itself..<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">
On 3/19/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jeremy Sanders</b> &lt;<a href="mailto:jss@ast.cam.ac.uk">jss@ast.cam.ac.uk</a>&gt; wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Devraj Mukherjee wrote:<br><br>&gt; Any ideas of tools that one can use to report errors etc for hardware<br>&gt; RAID?<br><br>Although you have an Adaptec card, here&#39;s a script for 3ware cards in case<br>anybody finds it useful. It&#39;s designed to run from crond so stderr gets
<br>sent to the script&#39;s user.<br><br><a href="http://www-xray.ast.cam.ac.uk/~jss/code/monitor_3w_raid.py">http://www-xray.ast.cam.ac.uk/~jss/code/monitor_3w_raid.py</a><br><br>Jeremy<br><br>--<br>Jeremy Sanders &lt;<a href="mailto:jss@ast.cam.ac.uk">
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