29 Jul
2013
29 Jul
'13
8:53 p.m.
----- Original Message ----- | Hi, | | We have on an old Dell 2850 with 4 SCSI drives, where we put a | Hardware | RAID5 on 3 disks and left 1 as spare. | I dont remember exactly, but the RAID was setup in the BIOS, and when | installing CentOS6, I just saw "1 drive". | | If it was software RAID, disk failure could be seen in /proc/mdastat, | and I could simulate failure with mdadm. | | As far as it is hardware ATM, how, at least, to know the state of the | RAID array? (syncing, healthy,...) | | Thank you. | | -- | RMA.
The IPMI controller if you have one, or the Dell diagnostic tools such as OSMA. Megacli can report these things back to you.
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James A. Peltier
Manager, IT Services - Research Computing Group
Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus
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Fax : 778-782-3045
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