I've got a Promise SX6000 configured with a 5-drive RAID 5 and one hot spare in a Redhat 7.2 system running kernel 2.4.18 with the i2o modules. It seems to work correctly as a block device. But is there a way to determine the health of the array from within Linux? I deliberately caused one data drive to fail yesterday, and the OS seemed blissfully unaware of the change - no messages were logged to syslog, dmesg, or the console and the volume remained readable and writable. The card beeped for quite a while, but must have finished rebuilding the array overnight because it was no longer beeping by morning. I'd rather not put this thing into production, only to have it consume the hot spare without ever telling me and have a real problem the next time a drive fails. Has anyone dealt with this issue before? Is there some simple, obvious tool or functionality I'm overlooking? Should I try Promise's hokey-looking drivers (which we have not yet succeeded in insmodding)? Thanks. -- Jim Moechnig James.P.Moechnig@syntegra.com Systems Administrator phone: (651) 415-4711 Syntegra USA, Inc. mobile: (612) 770-5168 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
