[CentOS] CentOS 5.5 does not recognise SAS drives with LSI 1068E Controller

On 3/10/2011 1:01 PM, John R Pierce wrote:
> On 03/10/11 10:56 AM, Les Mikesell wrote:
>> How important is the card-level battery if you have a UPS and a scheme
>> to monitor it and do a graceful shutdown before it fails?
>
> how important is your data?   if your system *never* crashes, and you're
> not running something like a database server dependent on committed
> writes, I'm sure you'd be fine.
>
> me, personally, I've had to recover from DC total UPS failures.   I like
> to put redundant power supplies on alternate UPS's, but with datacenter
> sized UPS's thats often not an option.

Sure, UPS's fail, plugs get pulled, etc., but the cards and internal 
batteries most likely have their own failure modes.  Or the whole box 
can fry at once.  Did you have any way to tell if your battery-backed 
saved any data as the disks lost power or did the filesystems just back 
out the incomplete writes anyway?

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   Les Mikesell
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