Justin Piszcz wrote:

On Sun, 9 Jul 2006, Jon wrote:

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I've a 3ware Escalade 8006-2 and run Centos 4.2 using the latest kernel 2.6.9-34.0.2.ELsmp. I see that the card comes with some disk management tools called 3DM2 Management Utility. Is this ok to install? Is it good for reporting failed drives?

Thanks

Jon

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Jon,

Yeah, it runs a daemon that you can configure via web or via the config file and you can configure it to let you know when the array is degraded, etc.

Justin.

Hi -

The only thing I use it for really is to alert me as to when drives run amuck. It can also be somewhat useful for rebuilding a degraded array, however, I believe this should be done using the actual BIOS. Remember, this also means downtime, however.

Hope that helps!

Thanks -dan