Re: OT: Testing and monitoring hardware RAID

[Karanbir Singh <mail-lists@xxxxxxxxx>]

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


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Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/  : 2522219@icq
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