PE6450 OMSA

[Jim Hall]

I think there is a tool called megamgr that will let
you control the adapter from within the OS.

Check here:

http://linux.dell.com/storage.shtml

Good Luck.

Chances are though the battery is shot on that
controller, so that will affect performance and you
won't get the benefits of battery backed cache.

Jim

--- Shane Corbin <corbin.sl at gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> Unfortuneately software raid just isn't an
> acceptible solution at this point. 
> Whether or not the 6450 as a whole is supported in
> OMSA 5.x doesn't seem to be the
> issue, as everything works except for the management
> of this controller.  Is there
> some kind of CLI tool that can manage this
> controller.  Hardware raid is absolutely
> necessary in our implementation.  I have had this
> issue with all versions of OMSA
> that I have been able to find, eg. 3.x - 5.x, so I
> am not so sure that it is a
> support issue.  I recently had a PE2450 with the
> same exact controller and it
> worked just fine.  If this machine is out of the
> scope, chronologically, is there
> another list or perhaps an archive that you can
> refer me too.  Your help is much
> appreciated.
> 
> 
> On Mon, May 5, 2008 10:57, Matt Domsch wrote:
> > On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 10:24:55AM -0500, Shane
> Corbin wrote:
> >> I have a Dell Poweredge 6450 with a PERC 2/DC
> raid controller.  I have installed
> >> the newest version of omsa available for debian
> through the apt repository
> >> ftp://ftp.sara.nl/pub/sara-omsa/
> >
> > OMSA 5.x shouldn't support the 6450 any more. 
> It's what, 7+ years old now?
> >
> >> The web interface works great and so do the om
> utilities.  Except for one thing.
> >> The om utils do not recognize teh PERC 2/DC as a
> storage controller.  All of my
> >> disks are managed with the PERC 2/DC due to the
> fact that the embedded AIC-7899P
> >> controller is not raid capable.  This is the main
> reason for using these
> >> utilities.
> >>  When a drive goes bad, I have to powerdown the
> machine in order to enter the
> >> controller bios to silence the alarm, rebuild
> array, etc...
> >
> > You could hook up the drives to the aic7xxx
> controller and use Linux
> > software RAID.  I've recommended this to people
> who have such old
> > hardware for several years now.  The drive bays
> themselves are
> > electrically hot-pluggable, and mdadm can be used
> to kick off the logical
> > add/remove/rebuild commands.
> >
> >> If anyone has any experience with the PERC 2/DC
> controller with the om utils
> >> please
> >> help.  Dell tech support mentioned that I may
> need to use the array manager, I do
> >> not see an "Array Manager."  Before switching to
> debian linux, the omsa installed
> >> with windows server 2003 managed this controller
> just fine.
> >
> > Array Manager was the Windows-only application,
> predating OMSA's
> > inclusion of Storage Services, that was intended
> to manage that
> > hardware.  As noted above, OMSA 5.x no longer
> supports that hardware.
> >
> >
> > --
> > Matt Domsch
> > Linux Technology Strategist, Dell Office of the
> CTO
> > linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux
> >
> 
> 
> -- 
> Shane Corbin
> Independant Computer Consultant
> corbin.sl at gmail.com
> 
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