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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mount hardware raid disk 1 with one disk and no hardware raid controler

I have one of two raid disk (from LSI raid card) There is a way to mount it in a PC and access to the disk without the raid card? Maybe mounting or skipping the first bytes!? Thanks in advance. Peter.
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Does the Intel DX79TO motherboard support x8 devices (SAS HBAs) on PCIe x16 slots?

Context: I have an Intel DX79TO motherboard and a Sun SAS3081E-S/LSI 1060E-S HBA card with a PCIe x8 interface. I plug the HBA into my mobo next to my graphics card, and the HBA power lights illuminate, but the BIOS and OSes (tried Linux, ESXi,…
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Upgrading Raid Card - import configuration - Perc 5

I am upgrading my Perc 5 to a Perc 5i (allegedly lets me have hot spares and power management). When I put the 5i card in and connect the drives, it does not recognise the previous RAID configuration. Import foreign disks is grayed out. How do I…
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LSI 9211-8i won't boot in KVM

I'm running ubuntu 11.04 with an LSI 9211-8i in IT mode with the latest firmware (10). I'm using KVM with VT-d enabled to pass the entire PCIe device through to the guest OS. I have the device disabled in the system BIOS. When I boot my virtual…
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for ZFS: passthru, I-T mode on LSI 9260-8i?

LSI 9260-8i firmware version 2.0x the controller menu does only have RAID: 0, 5, & 6 Solaris ZFS requires passthrough or Initiator-target mode to get direct access to disks.....how to get that accomplished? does it need a firmware upgrade..? any…
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RDAC MPP driver erratic path fail-over errors

In my central syslog I can see a some instances ofo the following error from LSI's RDAC multi-pathing driver for Linux. [RAIDarray.mpp]MY_NICE_STORAGE_ARRAY:1:0:7 Cmnd-failed try alt ctrl 0. vcmnd SN 2436 pdev H1:C0:T0:L7 0x05/0x94/0x01 0x08000002…
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Dell Perc 6/i Raid Monitoring on Linux 2.6.32-2x kernels

I am running an LSI raid (Dell Perc 6/i) on my Ubuntu 10.04 server. I want to monitor the raid array but it seems that there is no software for it. The raid drivers are part of the kernel, but I dont see any tools for it. Software that is available,…
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Splitting a raidctl mirror safely

I have a Sun T5220 server with the onboard LSI card and two disks that were in a RAID 1 mirror. The data is not important right now but we had a failed disk and are trying to understand how to do this for real if we had to recover from a…
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LSI MegaRaid not rebulding RAID5

I have a LSI megaraid Controller witha RAID5 array of 4 disks. This has been running for several years. Yesterday The controller degraded the array and I cannot access the data on it because it thinks one of the disk would be missing (but it is…
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How to blink or identify NVMe drives connected to an LSI 9500 tri-mode controller

we have the following setup in Supermicro server: LSI 9400 -> expander -> 10 x HDD LSI 9500 -> expander -> 2 x NVMe |------------| |-----------| | LSI 9400 | |--------------| ----->| HDD x 10 | |------------|…
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MegaCLI not seeing RAID card (LSI 9271-4i)

I have a server with LSI 9271-4i card and 4 HDDs. One day the server started malfunctioning and it wouldn't list any drive information. I rebooted the server and it never came up, so I have been using IPMI to check what's happening to it. The server…
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How to replace Raid1 hard drives with large ones using Storcli tool

I have raid1 with 2 physical drives (SATA 3.637 TB). I want to extend it's size with large ones without losing data. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- DG Arr Row EID:Slot DID Type State BT Size PDC …
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LSI RAID confusion

I've got a Cisco UCS server with a LSI Logic / Symbios Logic MegaRAID SAS 2008 [Falcon] (rev 03). This has 2 disks configured as RAID1. controller. One of the disks was reporting a very high failure count. I'm not very fdamiliar with LSI cards so I…
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MegaRaid LSI-9271-8i random drive failure

Anyone have tips on figuring out if I have a bad megaraid card? No matter how I configure with bbu or without. I am using wd red drives and even with brand spanking new drives it marks random drives as failed. While moving data do it. I fear I have…
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megaraid sas resetting fusion adapter

I'm running ESXi on a small home server and I'm seeing the following messages in ESXi logs: lsi_mr3: fusionCompletionBHIntr:3558: Firmware in fault state. WARNING: lsi_mr3: fusionReset:3918: megaraid_sas: resetting fusion adapter. mandateOCR flag…
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