Command line tool for configuring LSI MegaRAID cards in Linux.
Command line tool for configuring LSI MegaRAID cards in Linux.
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MegaCli refuses to configure new disk
A drive went bad on one of my nodes (actually 3 went bad, but there was no problem replacing the first one).
following replacement of the drive,
[root@ MegaCli]# ./MegaCli64 -PDList -aALL | egrep -i "Slot|State"
Slot Number: 0
Firmware state:…
Rod Engdahl
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MegaCli newly created disk doesn't appear under /dev/sdX
After having successfully added 2 new disks in a new RAID virtual drive (background initialization done), I would have exepected it to appear under /dev/sdh but it's not there (so, unusable).
The system is running a CentOS 5.2 64 bits, HAL and udev…
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megacli64.exe manual
Is there any document that explains the command line switches of megacli better than the cryptic output of megacli64 -h ?
The machine is an IBM x3650 m3 to which I added three more disks.
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nagios check_raid, megacli reporting wrong disk capacity, volume info on C240M5 Cisco 12G Modular Raid Controller [SAS3516]. TOSHIBA MG06SCA800A
nagios raid_check for new CiscoC240M5 with Cisco 12G Modular Raid Controller SAS3516 was failing.
For now I've modified check_raid to skip over the volume check part, checking only the physical drives but ideally we'd want to check both, with…
Johan Hoeke
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How to make a 'unconfigured' and 'ready' RAID drive 'online'?
I have 2 drives in RAID 1 configuration, as Ubuntu 16 boot drives. One of the drives failed and recovered by itself and I now have the following output:
root@server:/home/admin/megacli/Linux# megasasctl
a0 PERC H310 Adapter encl:1…
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megacli unconfigured(bad) disk status
megacli tell me, there is an issue with one of my disk.
Howerver, I am not sure that this disk actually exist.
Here is megaclisas-status info :
-- Controller information --
-- ID | H/W Model | RAM | Temp | BBU | Firmware
c0 |…
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MegaRAID Controller HDD Not Supported
I'm used to have a LSI MegaRAID Controller with 2 SSDs and 8 Western Digital HDDs. Recently I decided to add another 8 Western Digital HDDs - all 8 TB each - to create a new RAID 5 array. I hot-plugged the drives and checked the S.M.A.R.T status of…
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MegaCli won't rebuild when set to hotspare
I recently inserted a new drive and marked it as Good. When I then set it to be a Hot Spare, it refuses to rebuild.
[root]# MegaCli -PDList -aALL| grep Firm
Firmware state: Online, Spun Up
Firmware state: Online, Spun Up
Firmware state:…
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MegaCli create virtual drive from new disk (is it dangerous for the existing array?)
This is a linux system with a MegaRaid controller. MegaCli is installed.
I currently have:
Virtual Drive: 0 (Target Id: 0)
Name :
RAID Level : Primary-6, Secondary-0, RAID Level Qualifier-3
Size : 25.466…
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LSI Raid controller: identifying failing hard disk (MegaCLI)
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I have a LSI 9265-8i controller. It's been running pretty well for two years. More recently it looks like a drive may be failing - no errors reported and no media issues reported when viewing "MegaRAID Storage Manager". Performance on one of…
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megacli: Failed to alloc kernel SGL buffer for IOCTL
Today one of my servers started sending me alerts about non-optimal RAID state. These were triggered by a very simple script run by cron -- if it detects that not all of the disks report 'Optimal' state, it sends an alert.
Now, the issue is that the…
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Is it possible to use megacli to copy from one partition to another?
Except "dd" and "rsync", is it possible to directly use the megacli command to copy one partition to another? I am using h310 raid controller, and it seems not working well using "dd" or "rsync", which sometimes results in firemware failure, reset…
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MegaCli64 -PDInfo shows drive but other commands says device does not exist
A drive recently went missing on our IBM server. It has happened on other servers in the past and I usually just replace them with out a problem. On one it is not automatically adding the new drive.
I run the command:
MegaCli64 -PDInfo -PhysDrv…
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Enabling Temperature Support on LSI MegaRaid Cards
I've got two IBM ServeRAID M5014 SAS/SATA Controller cards in two different machines. One reports drive temperatures, the other does not. I am hopping that it is some type of megacli option that I can set. However, I have looked throughout the…
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How to securely erase drives on PERC H710 mini in Dell
The controller doesn't let me convert drives to JBOD for some reason, so I can't reach them with hdparm to send --security-erase-enhanced ATA command. So I decided to use MegaCli for which I found two different commands but both fail:
MegaCli…
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