PE860 SAS 5/iR - how to view RAID state

[Patrick_Boyd at Dell.com]

Can you verify that the mptctl drive is loaded? 

-----Original Message-----
From: Zach Bagnall [mailto:zach.bagnall at bulletinwireless.com] 
Sent: Monday, November 20, 2006 2:10 PM
To: Boyd, Patrick
Cc: linux-poweredge-Lists
Subject: Re: PE860 SAS 5/iR - how to view RAID state

Hmm.. thanks, but no such luck:

[root at kea ~]# omreport storage vdisk controller=0 Invalid controller
value. Read, controller=0 No controllers found.

[root at kea ~]# omreport storage vdisk
List of Virtual Disks on Controller  (Slot )

dmesg:
SCSI subsystem initialized
Fusion MPT base driver 3.02.62.01rh
Copyright (c) 1999-2005 LSI Logic Corporation Fusion MPT FC Host driver
3.02.62.01rh Fusion MPT SPI Host driver 3.02.62.01rh Fusion MPT SAS Host
driver 3.02.62.01rh
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:02:08.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 169
mptbase: Initiating ioc0 bringup
ioc0: SAS1068: Capabilities={Initiator}
scsi0 : ioc0: LSISAS1068, FwRev=00063200h, Ports=1, MaxQ=267, IRQ=169
   Vendor: Dell      Model: VIRTUAL DISK      Rev: 1028
   Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 05
SCSI device sda: 310546432 512-byte hdwr sectors (159000 MB) SCSI device
sda: drive cache: write through SCSI device sda: 310546432 512-byte hdwr
sectors (159000 MB) SCSI device sda: drive cache: write through
  sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4 < sda5 sda6 sda7 sda8 > Attached scsi disk
sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0

2.6.9-42.ELsmp

On 11/21/06 04:01, Patrick_Boyd at dell.com wrote:
> With OMSA you can just type "omreport storage vdisk controller=0" The 
> LSI packages won't work to monitor this card since it isn't a
"MegaRAID"
> card.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com 
> [mailto:linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com] On Behalf Of Zach Bagnall
> Sent: Monday, November 20, 2006 12:08 AM
> To: linux-poweredge-Lists
> Subject: PE860 SAS 5/iR - how to view RAID state
> 
> Hi all.
> 
> I have one of these here (and another two on the way) and need to 
> monitor the RAID1 array for failures.
> 
> I have install OMSA 5.1 from the included CDs but it's unclear where 
> to begin. Is that all I need? Can someone point me at the command to 
> execute to get the current state (OK, rebuilding, etc).
> 
> As a plan B, I downloaded MegaCLI from the LSI site
> (Linux_MegaCli_1.01.09.zip) and got it installed, but it doesn't see 
> the
> controller:
> 
> # MegaCli -CfgDsply -aALL
> 
> ERROR:Could not detect controller.
> 
> # MegaCli -AdpAllInfo -aALL
> 
> ERROR:Could not detect controller.
> 
> What's the best way to go about this?
> 
> Zach.
> 
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