Fun with onboard raid in dell poweredge 2650

Fun with onboard raid in dell poweredge 2650

[Mauricio]

	We have here a dell poweredge 2650 with the dell perc3/di 
onboard raid running suse enterprise linux 9. The install process 
went smoothly but we would like to have a way to check on the raid 
without having to physically see if a hard drive has crashed and 
thrown up the error lights. Initially, we have installed and tried 
multiple versions of afacli including 2.7, 2.8, and 4.1.  None of 
them see the array.  What else could we try on that?

RE: Fun with onboard raid in dell poweredge 2650

[Salyzyn, Mark]

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You could try the aaccli as provided by Adaptec.

I have also enclosed a simple, but internationalized, event handler.
This event handler is meant for more modern cards, but with the older
cards will as a minimum report runtime impending drive failures to
syslogd.

Sincerely -- Mark Salyzyn

Mauricio sez:
	We have here a dell poweredge 2650 with the dell perc3/di 
onboard raid running suse enterprise linux 9. The install process 
went smoothly but we would like to have a way to check on the raid 
without having to physically see if a hard drive has crashed and 
thrown up the error lights. Initially, we have installed and tried 
multiple versions of afacli including 2.7, 2.8, and 4.1.  None of 
them see the array.  What else could we try on that?

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RE: Fun with onboard raid in dell poweredge 2650

[Mauricio]

At 09:07 +0100 1/25/05, Bene Martin wrote:
>  >	We have here a dell poweredge 2650 with the dell perc3/di
>>  onboard raid running suse enterprise linux 9. The install process
>>  went smoothly but we would like to have a way to check on the raid
>>  without having to physically see if a hard drive has crashed and
>>  thrown up the error lights. Initially, we have installed and tried
>>  multiple versions of afacli including 2.7, 2.8, and 4.1.  None of
>>  them see the array.  What else could we try on that?
>
>Hi Mauricio,
>
>Fairly similar setup here - except we're still running RH 8.0 on the
>box, with a new kernel (2.4.27) though.
>
>afaapps-2.7-1.i386.rpm works OK on the system.
>
	Thanks for the suggestion!  I will try it out today and keep 
you all updated.