[olug] Promise FastTrak 100

[Brandon Lederer]

the only thing I have found is ide-smart... which uses S.M.A.R.T. hard disk
monitoring.  basically I could write a wrapper perl script to run it and
grep for failures.... and send email, or call a pager or whatever....   for
what SMART hard disk monitoring is worth.... any comments there.   Spong
looks interesting.  will look into it more

Worth noting.  I broke my array, by unplugging a power connector to a drive.
it HARD locked.  So i disconnected it and tried to boot Linux off of the
SINGLE drive on the RAID card.  KERNEL PANIC....  Now, does Linux not set up
/dev/ataraid/d0 if there is only the one drive?  is this why It kernel
panic'd?  Currently rebuilding the array as the machine must be available
tomorrow during business hours.
-----Original Message-----
From: Jay Swackhamer [mailto:Jay at RebootTheUser.com]
Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2003 7:16 PM
To: Omaha Linux User Group
Subject: Re: [olug] Promise FastTrak 100


if he's using the /dev/ataraid/d0 drive, he is using the raid devices

if you use the /dev/hde & etc drives, then you can directly access each disk

To monitor it
I'd look for messages in the logs for read/write errors, etc.......then
use something like 'Spong' for notification of errors...........




> You are not running RAID with this setup.
> According to another OLUG member and testing I have done with this
> controller it only works true RAID with Windows.
> If your OS sees /dev/hde and /dev/hdg you are seeing each individual
> unmirrored drive part.
> If you setup partitions on both drives and one fails you will lose the
> partitions on that drive.
> To be RAID you need to only see one drive.
> Only specific releases of Red Hat have drivers for the controller and may
> use it with true RAID.
> I have not found the new releases to work other than to see 2 drives like
> you did.
> I am disabling the controller on my system since it is built in and going
> to
> using a 3ware card to do RAID.
> I have tested 3ware for over 1 year now and at least 2 other OLUG members
> use
> it for work RAID applications needs.
>

>>
>> Recently set one of these up on a headless "Remote" local server.  It
>> sits
>> in a closet and doesnt get touched.  The HDD's are configured in RAID
>> mirroring.  My question.  How can I know that a hard drive has failed,
>> so
> I
>> can replace it.  Windows tells you that an array is in "critical" or
>> something.  How does Linux do notification on this.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Brandon
>> _______________________________________________


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