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Installing Adaptec 5405 RAID card HDD LED

I'm trying to install an Adaptec 5405 RAID card into an Intel 1RU server, and I need to figure out how to connect the existing SGPIO connector from the backplane, onto the card itself (at least I assume that's how it should work). Details The…
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Adaptec raid 1 on ibm 206m

So I have an IBM xseries 206m. It was working fine and one day after a reboot I noticed something weird about the RAID. It has a RAID 1 configuration, after this reboot (windows updates), I saw two windows drives appear in My computer. I rebooted…
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Adaptec 3405 failed: recover raid 5 set

Our RAID controller failed; it doesn't show up with a boot menu anymore, and the BIOS finds no disks. When we get a new controller, can we recreate the RAID set without losing data? IIUC, the controller has the configuration in RAM, not on disk (and…
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Adaptec RAID array was not detected after updating the kernel?

Continue from this topic, the newer kernel booted successfully but it doesn't see my sdc - which is a hardware RAID array (level 10). I'm sure the aacraid module is loaded: # grep aacraid /2.6.34.14/init echo "Loading aacraid.ko module" insmod…
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Adaptec 2020SA RAID controller Set up in RAID5, one drive went down, can I still get data?

I have 6 1tb drives in a RAID5. 1 drive went down. On the RAID was 2 virtual machines that I really need back up and running. The spare drive I have to put in the server is a 1.5tb drive, which exceeds the physical per drive limit of the 2020SA. The…
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Adaptec SCSI Card 39160. What to do with it?

Almost 10 years ago I bough an Adaptec SCSI Card 39160 for two Hitachi hard disks, with 80/68 pins adapters and cables and all the accoutrements. The hard disks died after 2 years (so much for reliability), I eventually realized that SCSI was…
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Adaptec RAID 5 degraded but all HDD are reported as optimal

According to adaptec support site, data on a disk got corrupted. The disk is physically fine and thats why it shows up as optimal. The solution is to reinitialize the disk. The only problem is I can't figure out which disk has the problem. Adaptec…
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Adaptec ASR-6805T can create raid from ssd only?

I'm about to move my Proxmox home server from NAS to RAID 10. I'm a hardware RAID fan, so I chose a solution among inexpensive old controllers. In the course of studying budget solutions for the home, the choice fell on the "Adaptec ASR-6805T (BBU)…
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Adaptec 8405E RAID 1 extremely slow expansion (1% per day)

Our RAID 1 is being expanded from 4 TB to 8 TB. The GUI status looks like this: The progress happens by about 1% per day. At the same time, the server is quite slow. This seems like an extremely slow rate of progress. This amounts to 4TB/100/86400…
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I cannot expand RAID 5 capacity on an Adaptec RAID 71605

I have a Supermicro CSE-815 X8DTU-F server. In it I have installed an Adaptec RAID 71605 controller with 4 SAS HDDs. With them I set up a RAID 5 with 3 discs only. Now I have connected the disk that was catching and I want to expand it to a RAID5…
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What is the right cache settings for Adaptec raid cards?

There are 2 possibilites to modify cache settings in the Adaptec Storage Manager. - Physical drive - Write-back or Write-through - Logical drive - Write-back, Write-back only with battery, write-through I do have a battery, so I would set Write-back…
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Adapted ASR-6405E controller losses raid array0 array

I've goit a Dell R200 server with an adaptec ASR-6405E RAID controller and 2 WD red 4TB drives in a raid-0 array. The harddisks replaced 2 Seagate 3TB drives 2 years ago because of the same issue. What happens is that at a certain moment the raid…
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Any ideas how to install old drivers for adaptec's family 5 controllers in xenserver 7?

I manage few servers with Adaptec family 5 controllers. They are discontinued and no support. However, is it possible to have storage_manager working on these hosts? Have anybody succeeded, to install working storage manager on Xenserver 7?
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Why are SAS laptop drives not spinning up on Adaptec controller

Having used the first SCSI drive of 20MB on an Amiga computer, I am now using a Tyan server board with an Adaptec/Microsemi RAID 6805E SAS controller and two Seagate 15K Cheetah 300GB SAS drives. This is my third Tyan server board and about the…
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Typical time to add a new volume on Adaptec controllers

I have an Adaptec 8805. I've been running 12x6TB RAID6 drives without issue. I just bought five 5x8TB drives and wanted to add them as a new partition in RAID5. I used the CTRL+A bios menu to initialize the new drives. In retrospect this wasn't a…
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