on 5-28-2009 9:25 AM Dianne Yumul spake the following:
Thanks for the help Karanbir and Rainer.
That sounds quite silly - also going through reboots means downtime, isnt that the sort of thing that raid1 was designed to protect against anyway.
I guess it would be silly :). I just wanted to make sure it was doing what it ought too.
Have you looked into adaptec supplied management s/w ? In pretty much ever case with such hba's the most functional way to look at state and do any management on raid tends to be from vendor supplied s/w
Adaptec - I don't know. They aquired a lot of companies over the years and thus the quality of the management-apps is/was sometimes questionable - and you never knew which one was good and which one wasn't as it varied between different revisions of the same hardware (which might have a similar name but a totally different tech inside...).
I checked the Adaptec site again and found a link to the Adaptec Storage Manager. I don't know how I missed that, thanks for the push in the right direction. Hopefully it works.
It worked for me when I ran a 2800S, but it is far from a light weight app.