Re: [CentOS] LSI Logic MegaRAID 8480 Storage controller

2009-03-11 Thread Joseph L. Casale
+ /home/drew/bin/MegaCli -AdpPRSetDelay 168 -a0 ^MInvalid input at or near token -AdpPRSetDelay Doesn't like the syntax Looks like the manual is outdated, you should have ran a -h :) Turns out this is the correct syntax: MegaCli -AdpPR -Dsbl|EnblAuto|EnblMan|Start|Stop|Info|{SetDelay Val}

Re: [CentOS] LSI Logic MegaRAID 8480 Storage controller

2009-03-11 Thread drew einhorn
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 8:26 AM, Joseph L. Casale jcas...@activenetwerx.com wrote: + /home/drew/bin/MegaCli -AdpPRSetDelay 168 -a0 ^MInvalid input at or near token -AdpPRSetDelay Doesn't like the syntax Looks like the manual is outdated, you should have ran a -h :) Hmm. I've seen a bunch of

[CentOS] LSI Logic MegaRAID 8480 Storage controller policies?

2009-03-11 Thread drew einhorn
Life is much better now that I'm using -h instead of the manual. I have a new question about policies Direct and DisDskCache makes sense Cached and EnDiskCache makes sense not so sure about Directand EnDskCache Cached and DisDsk Cache Do they make sense? -- Drew Einhorn

Re: [CentOS] LSI Logic MegaRAID 8480 Storage controller policies?

2009-03-11 Thread Joseph L. Casale
Life is much better now that I'm using -h instead of the manual. I have a new question about policies Direct and DisDskCache makes sense Cached and EnDiskCache makes sense not so sure about Directand EnDskCache Cached and DisDsk Cache Do they make sense? I believe Cached|Direct refers

Re: [CentOS] LSI Logic MegaRAID 8480 Storage controller policies?

2009-03-11 Thread drew einhorn
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 12:55 PM, Joseph L. Casale jcas...@activenetwerx.com wrote: Life is much better now that I'm using -h instead of the manual. I have a new question about policies Direct   and DisDskCache makes sense Cached and EnDiskCache makes sense not so sure about Direct    and

Re: [CentOS] LSI Logic MegaRAID 8480 Storage controller

2009-03-10 Thread drew einhorn
On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 11:14 AM, Joseph L. Casale jcas...@activenetwerx.com wrote: There is a MegaCLI command line interface that runs under the operating system.  Normally I prefer command line tools.  But this software is big, and complex.  All I have been able to find is a reference manual,

Re: [CentOS] LSI Logic MegaRAID 8480 Storage controller

2009-03-10 Thread Joseph L. Casale
The manual IS sloppy. missing - characters in the syntax Tryijng to figure out -Val syntax megacli AdpPRSetDelay -Val -aN|-a0,1,2|-aALL + /home/drew/bin/MegaCli -AdpPRSetDelay 0 -a0 Invalid input at or near token -AdpPRSetDelay Tried sticking a - in front of the zero.

Re: [CentOS] LSI Logic MegaRAID 8480 Storage controller

2009-03-10 Thread drew einhorn
On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 1:52 PM, Joseph L. Casale jcas...@activenetwerx.com wrote: The manual IS sloppy. missing - characters in the syntax Tryijng to figure out -Val syntax megacli AdpPRSetDelay -Val                    -aN|-a0,1,2|-aALL + /home/drew/bin/MegaCli -AdpPRSetDelay 0 -a0 Invalid

Re: [CentOS] LSI Logic MegaRAID 8480 Storage controller

2009-03-10 Thread drew einhorn
On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 4:18 PM, Joseph L. Casale jcas...@activenetwerx.com wrote: I wish I had one of my cards running, but just looking at the syntax, from my experience running this app, I would say you need to do: # MegaCli -AdpPRSetDelay -Val33 -a0 if you wanted 33 hours :) What are you

Re: [CentOS] LSI Logic MegaRAID 8480 Storage controller

2009-03-10 Thread Joseph L. Casale
I bet you didn't learn the syntax from the manual. I'll bet you inherited some scripts from someone else, and learned by tweaking working scripts. Uhm, I learned from the manual. I am tempted to fire one up and just figure it out... ___ CentOS mailing

Re: [CentOS] LSI Logic MegaRAID 8480 Storage controller

2009-03-10 Thread drew einhorn
On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 6:18 PM, Joseph L. Casale jcas...@activenetwerx.com wrote: I bet you didn't learn the syntax from the manual. I'll bet you inherited some scripts from someone else, and learned by tweaking working scripts. Uhm, I learned from the manual. I am tempted to fire one up and

Re: [CentOS] LSI Logic MegaRAID 8480 Storage controller

2009-03-10 Thread Joseph L. Casale
Drives are not consistent with Disk Group. Doesn't look like it liked the way I specified the mirrors! I really can't remember, but for some reason I think in the GUI you span then mirror, but in the cli you do it one pass. Dump the two ld's and try that command over. I really can't remember,

Re: [CentOS] LSI Logic MegaRAID 8480 Storage controller

2009-03-10 Thread John R Pierce
Joseph L. Casale wrote: Drives are not consistent with Disk Group. Doesn't look like it liked the way I specified the mirrors! I really can't remember, but for some reason I think in the GUI you span then mirror, but in the cli you do it one pass. Dump the two ld's and try that

[CentOS] LSI Logic MegaRAID 8480 Storage controller

2009-03-09 Thread drew einhorn
I have LSI Logic MegaRAID 8480 Storage controller I am having trouble reconfigure one of the hardware raid devices It is configured with 4 hardware raid logical volumes on /dev/sda /dev/sdb /dev/sdc /dev/sdd. I am in the middle of rebuilding the system,  and at this point I am only using one

Re: [CentOS] LSI Logic MegaRAID 8480 Storage controller

2009-03-09 Thread John Doe
From: drew einhorn drew.einh...@gmail.com When I try to delete it, it refuses and says: This is an OS drive. The virtual drive cannot be deleted. Any ideas on how to get past this problem with the MegaRAID Storage Manager, or pointers the better documentation, and maybe even a tutorial

Re: [CentOS] LSI Logic MegaRAID 8480 Storage controller

2009-03-09 Thread Joseph L. Casale
There is a MegaCLI command line interface that runs under the operating system.  Normally I prefer command line tools.  But this software is big, and complex.  All I have been able to find is a reference manual, that has lots of typos and is not very well organized for me to learn what I need to

Re: [CentOS] LSI Logic MegaRAID 8480 Storage controller

2009-03-09 Thread drew einhorn
On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 10:38 AM, John Doe jd...@yahoo.com wrote: From: drew einhorn drew.einh...@gmail.com When I try to delete it, it refuses and says:    This is an OS drive.  The virtual drive cannot be deleted. Any ideas on how to get past this problem with the MegaRAID Storage Manager,