Re: [gentoo-user] smartcl: probing individual drives in a 100% hardware raid array?
Adaptec RAID controllers have a built in BIOS that lets you check the drives but you have to boot to it. They also have a bootable CD (RH based) that has a GUI for looking at the RAID card and drives. On Wed, 30 Mar 2005, Mike Williams wrote: On Wednesday 30 March 2005 18:04, fire-eyes wrote: I'm using smartctl which lets me access S.M.A.R.T. data. I'm also using 100% hardware raid. So the system sees each array as a single disk, even though it's several disks. I'd like to probe each individual disk, however right now I can only probe an individual array. How might I do this? If the system can only see the array, then you can't. Many (most?) hardware raid solutions will give you a way to monitor the health of the array, and drives making it. -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #188143 Remove R777 to email -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] smartcl: probing individual drives in a 100% hardware raid array?
On Wednesday 30 March 2005 18:04, fire-eyes wrote: > I'm using smartctl which lets me access S.M.A.R.T. data. > > I'm also using 100% hardware raid. So the system sees each array as a > single disk, even though it's several disks. > > I'd like to probe each individual disk, however right now I can only > probe an individual array. > > How might I do this? If the system can only see the array, then you can't. Many (most?) hardware raid solutions will give you a way to monitor the health of the array, and drives making it. -- Mike Williams pgp2Lu0dfqxhe.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] smartcl: probing individual drives in a 100% hardware raid array?
On Wed, 2005-03-30 at 22:26 +0200, Richard Fish wrote: > Well, you could put the controller in JBOD mode and use software raid. > Linux has rock-solid software raid, at least for what I have used it > for, and it doesn't seem to take a lot of CPU power, even in RAID5. It > will consume a heck of lot more IO (and PCI) bandwidth however. Yeah I can't do that, we paid extra for it for a reason. I do agree software raid in linux, especially 2.6 kernels,is great, however. Thanks for the suggestion. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] smartcl: probing individual drives in a 100% hardware raid array?
Well, you could put the controller in JBOD mode and use software raid. Linux has rock-solid software raid, at least for what I have used it for, and it doesn't seem to take a lot of CPU power, even in RAID5. It will consume a heck of lot more IO (and PCI) bandwidth however. -Richard fire-eyes wrote: >I'm using smartctl which lets me access S.M.A.R.T. data. > >I'm also using 100% hardware raid. So the system sees each array as a >single disk, even though it's several disks. > >I'd like to probe each individual disk, however right now I can only >probe an individual array. > >How might I do this? > >-- >gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > > > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] smartcl: probing individual drives in a 100% hardware raid array?
On Wed, 30 Mar 2005, fire-eyes wrote: > I'm using smartctl which lets me access S.M.A.R.T. data. > > I'm also using 100% hardware raid. So the system sees each array as a > single disk, even though it's several disks. > > I'd like to probe each individual disk, however right now I can only > probe an individual array. > > How might I do this? Since the RAID is done by the RAID card and presents just a single drive to Linux you won't be able to do this. However, there might be drivers for your RAID card that might allow you to get data about the drives. What sort of RAID card is it? -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] smartcl: probing individual drives in a 100% hardware raid array?
I'm using smartctl which lets me access S.M.A.R.T. data. I'm also using 100% hardware raid. So the system sees each array as a single disk, even though it's several disks. I'd like to probe each individual disk, however right now I can only probe an individual array. How might I do this? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
