Questions tagged [lsi]

LSI is a manufacturer of enterprise storage and networking components.

LSI is a manufacturer of enterprise storage and networking components.

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LSI replace disk in raid1 with larger drives, how to expand raid to use free space

LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-8i Situation: 2 - 128GB drives in a raid1 I've replaced each drive, one at a time to let the raid rebuild. The raid now consists of 2 - 256GB drives in raid1 Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on …
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nexenta and hotswap sas disks. cfgadm not working properly

There is a problem with the hot-swap SAS drives. Initial data: Nexenta 4.0.2 Server-based Supermicro (MB S5520HC, internal RAID controller RMS2LL080/LSI 2008), 12 HDD SAS 300G 10 HDD SATA 1T, 2 SSD 160G. Disks are divided into three pools: System…
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LSI 9207-8i and Samsung 850 PRO TRIM support

A Dell R610 server with LSI 9207-8i HBA card has 6 Samsung 850 PRO SSDs connected to it. hdparm shows TRIM support: sudo hdparm -I /dev/sdc | grep -i trim * Data Set Management TRIM supported (limit 8 blocks) However executing the…
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Xenserver 6.5 LSI MegaRAID

Is there a package available to install the MegaCLI on XenServer6.5? For 6.5 there is this [1] but 6.5 has another kernel. XenServer 6.5 is based on CentOS6.5 (right?), so I also tried the kmod-megaraid_sas-06.806.08.00_el6.5-1.x86_64.rpm but that's…
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SAS direct dual link connection to an embedded LSI Fusion-MPT controller

This is a hardware question. I have a dual-link SAS hard drive and a Intel S5000XVNSAS motherboard without the drive cage option. Recently, I bought a direct dual-link cable in amazon. But when connecting the drive directly using this cable, its…
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LSI megaraid - config raid and non-raid

I have this configuration of server IBM X3650 M4 IBM ServeRAID M5110e 300GB x3 SAS (config as RAID 5) 1TB x1 SAS (config as normal disk, non-raid) Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard I would like the system behave like the following: OS install in…
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megacli lost virtual disk raid configuration

I've been running centos on x64 with an LSI raid controller description: RAID bus controller product: MegaRAID SAS 1078 vendor: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic i was trying to delete one of my 6 virtual disks with…
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Failing drive in RAID10 array; which degraded state will be least punishing on performance?

Running on LSi 9260-16i, with 16 SAS drives (Seagate Savvio 15k.2). One drive is getting media read errors, so we're going to RMA it out. Which of these is the least performance destroying option in the meantime until the new drive gets here in a…
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MegaCli shows "Firmware state: Failed" on new HDD

Here is the part of -PDList -a0 result: Enclosure Device ID: 252 Slot Number: 4 Drive's position: DiskGroup: 0, Span: 0, Arm: 0 Enclosure position: N/A Device Id: 12 Sequence Number: 3 Media Error Count: 0 Other Error Count: 0 Predictive Failure…
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EPC mode on Seagate Constellation using Linux

I need to set EPC mode on Seagate Constellation disks connected to LSI 9690SA-4l controller. This is because the controller is not compatible with the disks unless the EPC mode is set – according to page…
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Perc battery shown as missing

I replaced a failed battery in a Perc 5/i. The original and replacements are the same DLU8735 model. I couldn't find any special battery replacement procedures in the manual, so I just turned the system off and swapped them. After installing the…
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Strange performance issue with Dell R7610 and LSI 2208 RAID controller

Connecting controller to any of the three PCIe x16 slots yield choppy read performance around 750 MB/sec Lowly PCIe x4 slot yields steady 1.2 GB/sec read Given same files, same Windows Server 2008 R2 OS, same RAID6 24-disk Seagate ES.2 3TB array on…
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Upgrading Firmware on LSI 9211-4i to IT

I've been trying to get my LSI SAS 9211-4i moved over to IT mode. But I cannot for the life of me get it erased so I can flash the IT firmware to it. I've tried using FreeDOS (from the website) and FreeDOS off of UBCD (tried every single different…
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LSI RAID not synchronizing

There is a HS22 Blade with RAID. I removed one of the mirrored disk, and used it for other, but now I'm inserting it back, but it doesn't sync from the working disk. cfggen shows the following: cfggen_linux_i686_x86-64/cfggen 0 display LSI Logic IR…
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LSI MegaRAID : what does "transient error detected while communicating with PD : -:-:1" mean?

I've got a LSI MegaRAID 9260-16i card running in a server, and it keeps logging the error Controller ID: 0 Transient error detected while communicating with PD: -:-:1 I can't find anything about this message anywhere (documentation, google, forums…
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