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Adaptec 5405: can't disable background consistency check

I read this article on background consistency check (BCC): https://ask.adaptec.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/17180/kw/background I rebooted my system, ran ASM and the log shows alerts that the system has changed and a sense error message. No system…
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Can VMware ESXi be installed on a server with 2x480GB DC SSD, Adaptec 8405 SGL, RAID 1?

Intel Xeon E3-1275v5 4x RAM 16384 MB DDR4 ECC 2x SSD SATA 480 GB Datacenter RAID Controller 4-Port SATA PCI-E - Adaptec 8405 SGL The VMware-VMvisor-Installer-6.7.0.update03-14320388.x86_64 installer image contains the scsi-aacraid driver which…
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Is there a way to have two versions of the same Adaptec RAID driver installed on RHEL 5 / CentOS 5?

We have an older Adaptec 5805 RAID controller on our CentOS 5 server. (I added RHEL 5 to the question because of the similarity in these Linux distributions.) An Adaptec 8805 controller was recently added, but it is not detected by even a recent…
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Adaptec configuration has changed - Why can't it show me what it sees before blindly "accept" or "reject"ing?

I work with Adaptec cards on a regular basis; 2405, 5405, 6405e, 6805, and a few others. I am dismayed by the BIOS' terseness and lack of any utility at all. I can set card setting toggles; but the real issue I want to know: What does the card see…
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How to test is hardware ssd-cache work?

We have server with hardware raid controller (Adaptec ASR71605Q). It has 10 sas HDD, 2 SSD for cache and 1gb onboard cache ram. On server installed ESXi. On ESXi I'm start Linux, create 2Tb disk for tests. And now i need to test and ensure, that…
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Adaptec 6405 RAID controller turned on red LED

I have a server with an Adaptec 6405 RAID controller and 4 disks in a RAID 5 configuration. Staff in the data center called me because they noticed a red LED was turned on in one of the drive bays. I have then checked the status using 'arcconf…
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Is it okay to shut down Adaptec 5085 / MSA60 raid for 5 hours?

Adaptec Raid 5085 with no battery (on the raid card) 6 MSA60s Raid 10 Big APC UPS with low load Our building power needs to go out for 5 hours. Is it okay to shut down the raid for that long? One of our backup servers does not have a battery on…
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