[plug] AMI MegaRAID/HP NetRAID 1M/2M monitoring tools

[Bernard Blackham]

On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 11:32:47PM +0800, Ryan wrote:
> The jibberish characters in the detected version of the card is not good
> yeah?  They don't quite reproduce via the cut and paste, but I laughed
> when I saw them on the weekend.

But I recall seeing exactly the same thing come to think of it.
Possibly a bug in the driver. Seemed to work fine despite that.

> This is a default woody 2.2.20 kernel that i chucked on in a rush
> install on the weekend, though it is an old machine, I guess I should
> really get with the times and hit 2.4.x

Oooo, probably definitely worth trying. The 2.4.22 driver is dated
December 2002, where as this 2.2 one is 2000... I'm thinking this
magic megaraid character device wasn't invented back in 2000...
Everything else in dmesg appears happy. And the fact you have the
/proc entry is reassuring :)

> I see it has a Mail Box in it too, excellent ... maybe I can use the
> megaraid card instead of SuSE Openexchange Server :P
*g*

> Also, something else about these cards, though you'd be stupid to use an
> LPr as a gateway or home machine because they have lots of high volume
> fans and sound like a jet engine, 

I know somebody that does... despite the noise, they're good
footrests and heavy enough that nobody will steal them :)

> if you did and the RAID mirroring
> fails, you'll be woken by a monotone and inappropriately loud beeping
> during the entire auto-rebuild process.  I had lots of evil stares at
> work today from that :)  The crafty engineers put the transducer on the
> under-side of the card.

Bluetac on it works well.... that's also where the BIOS utility came
in handy - to switch of that blasted piezo :)

Last word of warning from experience - don't let people remove disks
while they're being low-level formatted. They die. :(

Bernard.

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 Bernard Blackham 
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