[wellylug] Hardware raid and Debian

[Peter Jones]

Do you get a "CTL-A" message at boot up? If so you should be able to use the
cards own utility to format the disk, which should flag the bad sectors.
BTW, is this card a rebadged DPT?  (Adaptec took over DPT) I have a couple
of DPT cards with the Raid/cache modules.There is a little LED array on the
cards that scans back and forth like the Knight Rider car.:-)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rob Stockley [mailto:wellylug at mowgli.net.nz]
> Sent: Tuesday, 8 February 2005 4:04 p.m.
> To: wellylug at lists.wellylug.org.nz
> Subject: Re: [wellylug] Hardware raid and Debian
> 
> 
> Rob Stockley wrote:
> 
> > Rob Stockley wrote:
> >
> >> I have an Adaptec PM2654U2 raid card running a four disk raid-5 
> >> array. The array was created using the card's BIOS utility and is 
> >> accessed under Debian Woody through the standard dpt_i2c 
> kernel module.
> >>
> >> Does anyone know of any Linux tools for accessing this card in a 
> >> running system? The card has a warning tone on it that 
> sometimes goes 
> >> off. There must be something that allows access to the card to 
> >> silence the tone without restarting the array.
> >
> >
> > BTW I know the tone should indicate something wrong but the array 
> > continues to work even while the tone is going. Will 
> programs written 
> > for SCO Unix work under Linux?
> 
> Okay just ignore me for a bit. There is a failed disk and of 
> course the 
> array would continue to work. Any pointers on how to 
> troubleshoot SCSI 
> disk failures? Are they just like an IDE drive where you can mark bad 
> sectors? Does this preclude using the disk in an array?
> 
> Look out, SCSI newbie in town :)
> 
> Rob
> 
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