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Raid controller is a device to manage physical disks

Raid controller is a special device used to manage multiple physical disks and present them as logical units. It implements hardware raid. It can be referred to also as disk array controller.

Disk array controllers provide:

  1. Backend interface to communicate with the controlled disks such as SATA, SCSI, etc..
  2. Frontend interface to communicate with the computer host such as HBA.
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Getting Proliant P212 disk SMART diagnostics in Centos 6.2/RHEL

Does anyone know how I can monitor (either gui or shell) the health status of my SATA disks via the P212 (256Mb) controller card of my ProLiant ML110 G6 ? I've currently got Centos 6.2 64bit installed but don't see how to show,say, the current SMART…
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Smart Array E200 - merging logical drives

Server has Smart Array E200 RAID controller with 8x 146GB SAS 10k drives: I have two logical drives. First set is RAID5 with 3 drives and second set RAID5 with 5 drives. Is there a way to merge these two sets into one? I don't mind loosing data on…
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Can I rebuild degraded RAID1 on a SAS 5 i controller with a larger mirror drive size?

A drive failed on a Dell SAS 5i controller - see controller bios screengrab: http://imagebin.ca/view/SkZbszA.html The primary is a 160GB 10k sata drive. I added a 250GB 7k rpm drive in the hope that the array would rebuild onto this drive. This did…
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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…
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Raid controller can't erase RAID config

I bought a Dell PowerEdge T320 that came with 2 1TB HDD and I just ordered 6 more used 3TB HDD. When setting up an array I'm able to see the original 2 HDD that came with the server but the 6 used drives are showing up as "foreign". I'm trying to…
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How to disable redundant path warning for a d2600 with 12 HP SATA drives?

Have a HP p822 RAID controller with FirmWare 8.32 cabled to a HPE d2600 with 12 x 4TB SATA drives in RAID60. These are not dual-port SAS drives, but 4TB SATA drives so there is only one pathway to each drive. With either one or two miniSAS cables,…
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Connect Tape Drive to H330

I'm re-purposing a Dell T430 server. It has an H730 connected to some disks for the OS and storage. It also has an H330, which I'm trying to use to connect an older Tandberg HH LTO4 tape drive. Unfortunately, I'm not having much luck. I can't see…
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How to get the raid controller make and model on a IBM Server?

I currently have a IBM IBM eserver xSeries 346 with Windows Server and according to device manager it has a IBM eserver xSeries 346 IBM ServerRaid 7k controller. How can I get the make and model? to see how many raids it support. Can someone tell…
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PCI-X RAID controllers compatible with Intel X25 SSDs

Is there any compatibility list published for Intel X25-E/M SSDs and various RAID controllers? In particular, I am looking to retrofit some Intel X25s to an XW9300, so I need to find a PCI-X SAS/SATA RAID controller (e.g. Adaptec ASR-4800) that…
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HP DL380 G4 smart array controller error

i have one HP server Proliant DL380 G4 with an error at bios post when he try to verify the smart array controller. Error is: 1783-Slot 0 array controller is in lock up state due to a hardware configuration failure (controller is disable until this…
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Hardware raid, LVM and KVM cache policy

I have a question about right cache policy for KVM using LVM and hardware raid-controller. So from the bottom: 1. We have LSI RAID controller 9260, 512Mb cache and BBU. Later we also will have CacheCade(SSD Drive as a cache) license and will use…
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Intel RAID controller cannot open BIOS and doesn't recognize hard drives

I recently bought a second-hand Intel RAID controller (SRCSASLS4I) for my Ubuntu server setup (YunoHost actually). I connected 3 hard drives that had previously been used for a software RAID (I did not repartition or anything, but I know that the…
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Windows Server 2008 R2 Slow File Copy

I recently installed Windows Standard Server 2008 R2 with SP1 on an HP Proliant ML350 G5. This server has Sql Server 2008 Express with a few very small databases, and acts as a file and print share server. There's no antivirus installed. No…
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Adding New Drives to Dell R720 in RAID 1 Configuration w/ Dell Lifecycle Controller

I have a Dell R720 with two 136GB drives set up on an existing virtual disc running RAID 1. I've run out of room, purchased two additional 600GB SAS 15K drives I'd like to set up for RAID 1 also to be available to the operating system. How do I go…
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Server raid doesn't boot in the morning

We have a HP Proliant ML350 G6 with integrated sas raid controller. Since 3 days the server starts up in the morning without this raid. All othe HDDs / SDDs are ok. We did install the ServicePack 2014.09, replaced the mainboard-battery and removed…
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