Questions tagged [megaraid]
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setup raid 6 with 12 - 2 TB drives
I have two 500GTB 7.2k Sata 2.5in drives, plus twelve 2TB drives, and LSI 9260-8i SAS/SATA Card. I need to have OS on one label the rest for storage. I am unsure how to build the raid6. It has the LSI MegaRaid utility. Should I build it all as one…

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AOC-S3108L-H8iR SAS Fault LED
The system was working fine when suddenly the drives were no longer available. Upon further inspection I found that the SAS Fault LED was lit on the RAID card and the megaraid software no longer show when booting up the system. The RAID card in use…

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LSI MegaRAID SAS 3108: Restoring the online state from Foreign Bad (Frn-Bad) state
We have a Virtual Disk in RAID 5 using only 5 disks, one disk probably is broken because it was in an alert before. Another disk was accidentally pulled out and then it was marked as Frn-Bad when it was put back in the same slot. So, the 2 disks are…
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storcli - remove physical drives from a virtual drive
Using an AVAGO Megaraid controller with the storcli command line software on Ubuntu.
My virtual drive has 8 10TB physical drives in a RAID5. I want to remove 2 of them so I can use those slots for another purpose. I have already shrunk the file…

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How to replace old drives in RAID 1 using WebBIOS?
Working with Sun Fire X4170 Server.
Now it have three RAIDs, all is on level 1. Every logical volume (every RAID) contains one Proxmox VM, idk does it matter in my case. The first RAID recognizes that there is no second drive, while the second RAID…

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Enlarging RAID1 virtual drive online on LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-8i without downtime?
I recently went out to a customer location and replaced + rebuilt a RAID1 drive group on their Lenovo TS440 server, going from 2 TB drives to 4 TB drives.
Question is - what's the best way to enlarge the virtual drive group? It's stuck at 2 TB and I…

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Storcli64 not rebuilding replaced disk
One of the drives in our LSI-based RAID failed (Avago 3108 MegaRaid). We pulled the drive and replaced it with a similar disk (cap/speed). Autorebuild is enabled, however the status of the disk (128:7) shows it's state is JBOD instead of Onln, so it…

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Supermicro won't boot from RAID virtual drive after a power outage
One of our Supermicro servers won't boot from the virtual drive on a MegaRAID SAS 9361-8i after a power outage.
It can still boot from a USB stick without trouble, all hard drives and
file systems seem to be intact. The correct drive is not shown as…

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ESXi does not show drives for second RAID controller with NVMe drives
I got a second RAID controller (AVAGO 9440-8i) to put in my Dell T440 server (first RAID controller is a H740P). I got the Broadcom U.2 enabler cable and two WD Gold 2TB drives.
I've updated ESXi, the lsi_mr3 package, the whole original Dell-system…

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Bitlocker Encryption on RAID 0 kicks drive out of array half-way through
After hunting around for answers, I found some for the question: "Does Bitlocker support RAID on Windows". The answer seems to be that hardware RAID is supported.
I've got a RAID 0 drive that I wanted to test this on, so I began the Bitlocker…

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LSI Megaraid beeping after disk replacement
On my ESXi server, I had to replace a physical disk of my RAID.
Now that disk is replaced and rebuild finished, alarm continue beeping, and I don't understand by why, because everything seems to be optimal:
/opt/lsi/MegaCLI # ./MegaCli -LDInfo -Lall…

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smartd error [ATA error count increased]
I got a mail to root, (same error in syslog)
The following warning/error was logged by the smartd daemon:
Device: /dev/bus/0 [megaraid_disk_12] [SAT], ATA error count increased from 0 to 9
Device info:
ST13000NM0005-2A1201, S/N:ZVJ2GZSP,…

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MegaRaid and power failures
I have a server that is currently working on migrating a RAID setup. There are 36 drives connected to an AVAGO 3108 MegaRAID, and as of this moment, the estimated time remaining is ~13 days. It's been running for a while, and the estimate has…

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Does MegaRAID support creation of initially degraded RAID array?
I want to make a RAID5 array out of 3 disks, copy data from the one disk I have then clear it and add as a spare to the array. A similar magic I can do in linux with mdadm utility (mdadm --create drv1 drv2 drv3 missing & mdadm --add drv4). I have a…

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Does this SMART report indicate a bad disk?
On a remote server, I have 2x3TB drives set in raid 0 with SLI raid card.
I tried to run SMART tests to see if drives have a problem because server become unresponsive and one drive had to be put back "online" manually.
Drive ids are 4 and 5, this…

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