Questions tagged [adaptec]
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How long should a RAID Reconfiguration take? (Adaptec 6805)
I'm experimenting with various RAID configurations of a new Adaptec 6805 (not the 'E' model)
Attached are 8x Hitachi 5400RPM 2TB SATA 6Gb Drives using the miniSAS to SATA cables provided.
I created ...
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Monitoring hardware RAID on VMWare ESXi
I've got an ESXi 3.5 server on "unsupported" hardware - SuperMicro motherboard, Adaptec 9410 3405 RAID controller (oops, the 9410 is the onboard controller that's not being used for RAID) - and I'm ...
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Possible to migrate RAID 10 system from 2TB Seagate to 2TB WD?
A couple of our servers have ST32000641AS (2TB Seagate desktop drives) in RAID 10 using an Adaptec 2405 controller. I've been told by Adaptec that this is a bad idea and we have, in fact, already ...
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How can I modify the Ubuntu Server install CD to add a hardware driver?
I found this link to modify an Ubuntu install CD.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/InstallCDCustomization
However, I want to put the Adaptec aic94xx RAID driver onto the disk so that my RAID ...
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Adaptec pm80xx Driver Drops Drives Randomly
I'm building a ZFS NAS using an Adaptec ASA-71605H HBA on Ubuntu 12.04.4.
Modern Linux kernels ship with the open-source version of the required pm80xx kernel module. Adaptec provides a driver for ...
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Adaptec 2405 "Knight Rider" LEDs - fault?
I have an Adaptec 2405 installed on ESXi 5.0. When the card is idle, it flashes the red LEDs back and forth, Knight Rider -style, just like this video. Is this normal, or is this a fault? I have dug ...
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Use a RAID Controller without drivers?
Ordered an Adaptec 1420SA RAID card for my Debian Squeeze media server but didn't check to see if it was compatible, turns out it's not because it uses something called hostRAID which requires special ...
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Adaptec 2420SA RAID 1 rebuild 66% after 1 week
We're running a 500GB RAID 1 on an Adaptec 2420SA - 2x500GB Hitachi Drives. It suddenly crashed and required a rebuild -- was not even booting. It's only at 66% after about a week. Very frustrated. ...
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Abort raid6 expansion on Adaptec 52445 SATA RAID?
I am expanding my raid6 array from 18x2Tb to 20x2Tb disks and after 3 weeks status shows:
Logical device Task:
Logical device : 0
Task ID : 105
Current ...
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Adaptec RAID Controler - Logical device in Failed state
I have a hardware Adaptec ASR8405 RAID controller on which I have 15 disk RAID6 Array. One of the disks broke and after the replacement the Controller did not pick up on it, did not start the rebuild ...
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Adaptec 5805 RAID 1: need more space
We have a server with an Adaptec 5805 RAID 1 array, with two SAS 146GB disks. We need more space on this server.
Is it possible to hot-replace each 146GB HD with a 300GB HD, and let the controller ...
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Why is one drive running at 3.0gb/s?
I have a server where I will be updating the Adaptec RAID controllers firmware and drivers soon, and so I was arcconf to check a few things.
The four disks are all the same model configured as a ...
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Failed RAID 5EE array
I've got failed RAID 5EE array (on a server running Windows Server 2003).
After controller initialization it saysarrays have missing required members and cannot be configured. Adaptec Storage ...
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Adaptec 2610 RAID 1 - status 'Impacted'
I have created a second array using the 2nd and 3rd disks in the bay and ran through the process - its build but now showing a status of 'impacted'.
How can i get this to 'optimal'?
Thanks in ...
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RAID status monitoring HPE Smart Array E208i-p SR Gen10
It shouldn't be this hard, but I can't figure out how to monitor the RAID status with the HPE Smart Array E208i-p SR Gen10, in a HP ProLiant DL360 Gen10 in Linux.
I can't find a file in /proc or /sys....
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Raid 10, Logical device are missing
I have a problem with a RAID 10, I have 4 disks on raid. A disc has just been changed (0,3). But I can not rebuild the array. Logical device are setted as "Missing".
All commands return to me the ...
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How to solve intermittent server hangs? Write to (and read from) a disk stops completely
We have a LAMP server for about 6 months. CentOS 7.0
It ran non stop without a restart for the first 3 months then it hang.
Then it run for the next 2 months (also non stop without a restart) then ...
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Confusion about write-cache setting and write-cache status on Adaptec Raid-Controller
Because of performance issues I wanted to verify that Write-Caching is indeed enabled for the Adaptec ASR71605 Raid-Controller. I can see a mismatch between write-cache setting=enabledand write-cache ...
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Adaptec 5805 on Centos 6 IRQ 16 error
I'm having a problem with Adaptec 5805 raid card
http://www.adaptec.com/en-us/support/raid/sas_raid/sas-5805/
(with two SAS discs in raid) and Gigabyte motherboard GA-H67A-D3H-B3
http://www....
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Adaptec 7901 RAID 10 Degraded Drive - Cannot Rebuild
I have a Tyan server with an onboard AIC-7901. One drive out of four in a RAID10 array is marked as degraded. I power down, pop out the offending drive, put in a good one, reboot and go into Adaptec ...
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Installing Adaptec 5405 RAID card HDD LED
I'm trying to install an Adaptec 5405 RAID card into an Intel 1RU server, and I need to figure out how to connect the existing SGPIO connector from the backplane, onto the card itself (at least I ...
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What is the right cache settings for Adaptec raid cards?
There are 2 possibilites to modify cache settings in the Adaptec Storage Manager.
- Physical drive - Write-back or Write-through
- Logical drive - Write-back, Write-back only with battery, write-...
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Failed Raid 5 on Adaptec 2010S
had a major problem with my Raid 5 yesterday. Adaptec Controller showed all 4 drives with status failed and the array was on failed too.
I used raidutil to force it back to optimal state after reboot ...
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How to Add Another Physical Drive to Adaptec maxView RAID6 Logical Drive
I have an ASR71605. I've added another drive to the controller which shows up in max view as ready. The logical drive is RAID 6 with 5 drives in it now. I'm adding this additional drive which is ...
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Adaptec SCSI Card 39160. What to do with it? [closed]
Almost 10 years ago I bough an Adaptec SCSI Card 39160 for two Hitachi hard disks, with 80/68 pins adapters and cables and all the accoutrements.
The hard disks died after 2 years (so much for ...
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Adaptec 3405 failed: recover raid 5 set
Our RAID controller failed; it doesn't show up with a boot menu anymore, and the BIOS finds no disks. When we get a new controller, can we recreate the RAID set without losing data? IIUC, the ...
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I cannot expand RAID 5 capacity on an Adaptec RAID 71605
I have a Supermicro CSE-815 X8DTU-F server.
In it I have installed an Adaptec RAID 71605 controller with 4 SAS HDDs.
With them I set up a RAID 5 with 3 discs only. Now I have connected the disk that ...
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Adaptec 52445 RAID controller error 418: Bad block discovered, but which drive?
I started getting emails from this old controller last week, but they're not very descriptive:
May 17, 2017 4:58:32 AM MDT WRN 418:A01C-S--L-- REDACTED_SERVER_NAME Bad Block discovered: ...
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Read RAID disks on another RAID adapter
I have a server with a failed motherbord.
The motherboard has an embeeded Adaptec RAID controler.
The server has 3 SCSI disks in a software RAID5 array (so the RAID controller is used only as a SCSI ...
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Adaptec RAID array was not detected after updating the kernel?
Continue from this topic, the newer kernel booted successfully but it doesn't see my sdc - which is a hardware RAID array (level 10).
I'm sure the aacraid module is loaded:
# grep aacraid /2.6.34....
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Adaptec 2020SA RAID controller Set up in RAID5, one drive went down, can I still get data?
I have 6 1tb drives in a RAID5. 1 drive went down. On the RAID was 2 virtual machines that I really need back up and running. The spare drive I have to put in the server is a 1.5tb drive, which ...
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Adaptec RAID 5 degraded but all HDD are reported as optimal
According to adaptec support site, data on a disk got corrupted. The disk is physically fine and thats why it shows up as optimal. The solution is to reinitialize the disk. The only problem is I can't ...
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Replacing a HDD in a RAID 5 after the Hot Spare already rebuilt
(I'll try to be brief on the background) I have 2 RAID 5 arrays using an Adaptec 5405 controller. In the past when a drive failed I was able to swap the drive with a new one and it would rebuild ...
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Adaptec ASR-6805T can create raid from ssd only?
I'm about to move my Proxmox home server from NAS to RAID 10. I'm a hardware RAID fan, so I chose a solution among inexpensive old controllers. In the course of studying budget solutions for the home, ...
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Adaptec 8405E RAID 1 extremely slow expansion (1% per day)
Our RAID 1 is being expanded from 4 TB to 8 TB. The GUI status looks like this:
The progress happens by about 1% per day. At the same time, the server is quite slow. This seems like an extremely slow ...
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Adaptec Raid1 on Debian failed Stripes
its my 1st question here so please be kind.
I've got an monitoring server which is running on debian wheezy. It runs a RAID1 (2x 160GB) on a Adaptec Raid Controller (IBM ServeRAID 8k-l).
A few days ...
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Adaptec 5805 Raid 5 Offline
I have an ESXi Server with an Adaptec 5805 Raid Controller,8x 1TB HDDs.
In the middle of the last week I saw that one Disk has an Error (the Controller was beeping and the light on the HDD was ...
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Windows Server 2003 R2 - Adaptec Storage Manager email notification not working
I'm having problems with the Adaptec storage Manager email notification. It can't send emails to recipients, always showing an ERROR message.
Seems that the problem it's related to some java voodoo ...
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Adaptec 5405 doesn't rebuild the array for changed disks
I had a 4 disk RAID 10 configuration (as 2 logical arrays) on one of my servers and noticed that the server was down. When I reboot it, one the disks was missing.
Talked with the datacenter and they ...
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Adaptec 2820SA RAID 5 cannot rebuild
I have an 8 disk RAID-5 array in degraded state. One drive failed some time ago, I replaced it, and it rebuilt and all was fine (state of the logical drive became optimal). Now another disk has ...
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external mSAS expansion
I got two servers. One with a Intel RS2MB044 and one with an Adaptec ASR-51245, both got an external mSAS connector.
I need to connect these tho servers together, basically to share the file system ...
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Adaptec raid 1 on ibm 206m
So I have an IBM xseries 206m. It was working fine and one day after a reboot I noticed something weird about the RAID.
It has a RAID 1 configuration, after this reboot (windows updates), I saw two ...
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Can RAID controller degrade my server's performance somehow?
I'm running a small IT company. Specifically less than 10 persons all are developers and no system administrator. I am so to say the owner doing much of work. So now I am asking the question being a ...
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Can VMware ESXi be installed on a server with 2x480GB DC SSD, Adaptec 8405 SGL, RAID 1?
Intel Xeon E3-1275v5
4x RAM 16384 MB DDR4 ECC
2x SSD SATA 480 GB Datacenter
RAID Controller 4-Port SATA PCI-E - Adaptec 8405 SGL
The VMware-VMvisor-Installer-6.7.0.update03-14320388.x86_64 installer ...
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Adaptec HostRaid RAID1 1/2 of HDD capacity
I have a server with Adaptec HostRaid controller. It has 2x 2TB drives. If I go to create a RAID0 array (striped), it will set the array's capacity to 2TB, when I go to create a RAID1 array (mirrored, ...
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Is there a way to have two versions of the same Adaptec RAID driver installed on RHEL 5 / CentOS 5?
We have an older Adaptec 5805 RAID controller on our CentOS 5 server. (I added RHEL 5 to the question because of the similarity in these Linux distributions.) An Adaptec 8805 controller was recently ...
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How to activate updated drivers in Hyper-V
I am working on getting a host setup using Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 but am running into some issues with drivers. I have been able to add the drivers via pnputil. When I check to which which drivers ...
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Recommendation for Server 2008 RAID card with port multiplier support [closed]
I am currently building a large (20 TB) online data store and my first attempt has gone a bit awry. The use case for this storage is to have a non-backed up repository of data for a set of users to ...
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How to benchmark maxCache 3.0 with SSDs? [duplicate]
We're a software development company and previously outsourced the HW side of business but now we're looking into building our own private cloud. We recently purchased a few servers, one of which is ...
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Adaptec 5405 fails to rebuild array
Yesterday one of the disks in RAID 1 mirror attached to Adaptec 5405 died and was replaced by new one but after about 2 hours of rebuilding array went offline. Hoster staff updated firmware on ...
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