Hi, On 05/27/2009 06:17 PM, Dianne Yumul wrote: > I was hoping to get recommendations on the proper way to test a RAID > 1 hardware configuration. The controller is an Adaptec 2200S. I > found an article, but not for this controller, that suggests to power > off the system, pull one of the drives, boot the OS and power off > again. Would this be the way to go? That sounds quite silly - also going through reboots means downtime, isnt that the sort of thing that raid1 was designed to protect against anyway. > Also any suggestions on what to use to monitor it as well? Can't get > smartmontools to work. 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 -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219 at icq