John R Pierce wrote:
On 2/20/2014 1:27 PM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
If this were a Dell RAID, I could use megaraid while the system's running. Does anyone know what I need to use to manage the HP "amart array" RAID? I've got an orange light on a drive, and can't find, googling, whether I can just pull the drive, or if I have to separate it from the RAID, or.... And can't bring the system down to use the firmware interface, not without upsetting users.
Dealt with this a year or two ago, and can't find anything.
hpacucli
THANK YOU!
That was *exactly* what I needed. Boy, is that interface user hostile. Finally got it to tell me the drive'd failed.
Now, if we've got a spare 2.5" drive (I have grave doubts)....
this page seems to suggest what all you need to install to get it to play, I'd check HP's site for newer versions, of course, but then a g5 is a pretty old server. http://koo.fi/blog/2008/06/08/hp-array-configuration-and-diagnostic-utilitie...
It is. We inherited it, sorta, and it's in use in an intramural collaboration between us and another Institute.
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