DELL had 2 main family of RAID hardware using 2 different drivers. Once is aacraid, and I manage them using afacli (command line tool) Here is a getting started :-) [root at max ~]# ls -l /dev/afa0 crw-r--r-- 1 root root 254, 0 Aug 27 13:30 /dev/afa0 [root at max ~]# afacli ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ DELL PowerEdge Expandable RAID Controller 2 Command Line Interface Copyright 1998-2004 Adaptec, Inc. All rights reserved ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CLI > open afa0 Executing: open "afa0" AFA0> container list Executing: container list Num Total Oth Chunk Scsi Partition Label Type Size Ctr Size Usage B:ID:L Offset:Size ----- ------ ------ --- ------ ------- ------ ------------- 0 RAID-5 1.09TB 64KB Valid 0:00:0 64.0KB: 279GB /dev/sda RAID5_5x300 0:01:0 64.0KB: 279GB 0:05:0 64.0KB: 279GB 0:03:0 64.0KB: 279GB 0:04:0 64.0KB: 279GB 1 Volume 279GB Valid 0:02:0 64.0KB: 279GB /dev/sdb VOLUME_1X300 AFA0> disk show space Executing: disk show space Scsi B:ID:L Usage Size ----------- ---------- ------------- 0:00:0 Container 64.0KB: 279GB 0:00:0 Free 279GB: 149MB 0:01:0 Container 64.0KB: 279GB 0:01:0 Free 279GB: 149MB 0:02:0 Container 64.0KB: 279GB 0:02:0 Free 279GB: 405MB 0:03:0 Container 64.0KB: 279GB 0:03:0 Free 279GB: 149MB 0:04:0 Container 64.0KB: 279GB 0:04:0 Free 279GB: 149MB 0:05:0 Container 64.0KB: 279GB 0:05:0 Free 279GB: 149MB AFA0> help Executing: help close - Closes the currently opened controller when all access is completed. exit - Closes the currently opened controller and exits the CLI. open - Opens a controller for use in the CLI. The open command prepares a particular controller for access by the CLI. history_size - Set size of history buffer. reset_window - Reset the window. container - Container operation commands. container add_level - Creates a multilevel volume container which will contain the specified container as its only element. container create - Creates various containers and items. container create mirror - Creates a mirror set from a single entry volume set. container create mmirror - Creates a multilevel container of mirror sets from a multilevel container of single entry volume sets. ..... Manage RAID 5 is more than verify the container is ok ! You need to be active by checking the disk often for bad block and replace them. One I got bad block on 3 of a 4disk array another time it was 3disk on an array of 5 and this time I got lot of corrupted files (with bloc of 4k filled with random value). Now a check all my disk every month. Hope this help Here all my own management script. You can run all these script when the system is running. Of course the disk verify will slow down the system :-) # for file in *.afa *.sh ; do echo ======= $file =========== ; cat $file ; done ======= check.afa =========== open afa0 disk verify 0 disk verify 1 disk verify 2 disk verify 3 disk verify 4 disk verify 5 task list close exit ======= history.afa =========== open afa0 diagnostic show history close exit ======= status.afa =========== open afa0 disk list disk show space container list close exit ======= task.afa =========== open afa0 task list close exit ======= verify.afa =========== open afa0 task list diagnostic show history close exit ======= history.sh =========== afacli @history.afa ======= start_check.sh =========== afacli @check.afa echo "run verify.sh later (use task.sh to know if the task are done)" ======= status.sh =========== afacli @status.afa ======= task.sh =========== afacli @task.afa ======= verify.sh =========== afacli @verify.afa | egrep "media_scan|ID\(0:0.:0\)|Periodic Time Display" On 8/27/07, Matt Arnilo S. Baluyos (Mailing Lists) < matt.baluyos.lists at gmail.com> wrote: > > On 8/27/07, Mezei Zoltán <mezei.zoltan at telefor.hu> wrote: > > Matt Arnilo S. Baluyos (Mailing Lists) wrote: > > > > > > I'm doing an audit of all our servers here (there aren't that many > > > maybe around 5-10) and one of the things I'm doing is taking note of > > > each server's hardware specs (processor, memory, etc). > > > > > As a first task for your audit I'd recommend counting your servers :-p > > Haha. Was too lazy to look at my notes. We currently have 8 servers. > > > > Hardware RAID cards are usually managed by third-party add-on programs. > > E.g. HP provides the tool called hpacucli which can determine everything > > regarding your RAID controller and discs. > > > > What kind of hardware RAID solution do you have? If you can't determine, > > the output of lspci might help. > > It's a Dell 2550 PowerEdge server. > > Below is the result of lspci: > > 00:00.0 Host bridge: Broadcom CNB20HE Host Bridge (rev 23) > 00:00.1 Host bridge: Broadcom CNB20HE Host Bridge (rev 01) > 00:00.2 Host bridge: Broadcom CNB20HE Host Bridge (rev 01) > 00:00.3 Host bridge: Broadcom CNB20HE Host Bridge (rev 01) > 00:0e.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage XL (rev 27) > 00:0f.0 ISA bridge: Broadcom OSB4 South Bridge (rev 50) > 00:0f.1 IDE interface: Broadcom OSB4 IDE Controller > 00:0f.2 USB Controller: Broadcom OSB4/CSB5 OHCI USB Controller (rev 04) > 01:08.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5700 > Gigabit Ethernet (rev 10) > 02:02.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 80960RM [i960RM Bridge] (rev 01) > 02:02.1 RAID bus controller: Dell PowerEdge Expandable RAID Controller > 3/Di (rev 01) > 02:04.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82557/8/9 [Ethernet Pro > 100] (rev 08) > > > -- > Stand before it and there is no beginning. > Follow it and there is no end. > Stay with the ancient Tao, > Move with the present. > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- Alain Spineux aspineux gmail com May the sources be with you -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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