Re: [CentOS] LSI MegaRAID experience...

2013-07-19 Thread John Doe
The thing that bothers me is that the ctrl sees all the drives at first, later does not see some anymore, and he just forgets about them like they never existed. I would have expected to still see them but in a failed state... Here, megacli just lists info for the remaining drive(s). So I miss

Re: [CentOS] LSI MegaRAID experience...

2013-07-19 Thread Drew Weaver
If these drives do not have TLER do not use them with LSI controllers. -Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of John Doe Sent: Friday, July 19, 2013 5:13 AM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] LSI MegaRAID experience

Re: [CentOS] LSI MegaRAID experience...

2013-07-19 Thread John Doe
From: Drew Weaver drew.wea...@thenap.com If these drives do not have TLER do not use them with LSI controllers. Not sure about TLER on those Plextors... This is what megacli says: Enclosure Device ID: 252 Slot Number: 0 Drive's position: DiskGroup: 0,

Re: [CentOS] LSI MegaRAID experience...

2013-07-19 Thread Drew Weaver
Not sure about TLER on those Plextors... This is what megacli says: Enclosure Device ID: 252 Slot Number: 0 Drive's position: DiskGroup: 0, Span: 0, Arm: 0 Enclosure position: N/A Device Id: 0 WWN: 4154412020202020 Sequence Number: 2 Media Error Count: 0

Re: [CentOS] LSI MegaRAID experience...

2013-07-19 Thread m . roth
John Doe wrote: From: Drew Weaver drew.wea...@thenap.com If these drives do not have TLER do not use them with LSI controllers. Not sure about TLER on those Plextors... snip TLER would only show up on something that looks at a *very* low level on the physical drive. What I know is that you

Re: [CentOS] LSI MegaRAID experience...

2013-07-19 Thread Drew Weaver
John Doe wrote: From: Drew Weaver drew.wea...@thenap.com If these drives do not have TLER do not use them with LSI controllers. Not sure about TLER on those Plextors... snip TLER would only show up on something that looks at a *very* low level on the physical drive. What I know is that you

[CentOS] LSI MegaRAID experience...

2013-07-18 Thread John Doe
Hey, anyone using an LSI MegaRAID experienced disappearing drives...? We installed 6 new C6 servers, each with a Supermicro SMC2108 (LSI MegaRAID) controllers and 3 PX-128M5Pro SSDs ( RAID1 + hostswap). 2 weeks (and almost no activity on it, since not in production, apart from installation)

Re: [CentOS] LSI MegaRAID experience...

2013-07-18 Thread Digimer
I have about 20 servers running CentOS 6 with LSI RAID controllers, all using MegaCLI64 and I have not have problems. I did have a problem with a white-box using a SM chassis and I found on occasion that one node would periodically fail to see a couple drives on boot though. In this case, a

Re: [CentOS] LSI MegaRAID experience...

2013-07-18 Thread m . roth
John Doe wrote: anyone using an LSI MegaRAID experienced disappearing drives...? We installed 6 new C6 servers, each with a Supermicro SMC2108 (LSI MegaRAID) controllers and 3 PX-128M5Pro SSDs ( RAID1 + hostswap). 2 weeks (and almost no activity on it, since not in production, apart from

Re: [CentOS] LSI MegaRAID experience...

2013-07-18 Thread Miranda Hawarden-Ogata
On 2013/07/18 05:57 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: John Doe wrote: anyone using an LSI MegaRAID experienced disappearing drives...? We installed 6 new C6 servers, each with a Supermicro SMC2108 (LSI MegaRAID) controllers and 3 PX-128M5Pro SSDs ( RAID1 + hostswap). 2 weeks (and almost no activity

Re: [CentOS] LSI MegaRAID experience...

2013-07-18 Thread John R Pierce
On 7/18/2013 8:26 AM, John Doe wrote: We installed 6 new C6 servers, each with a Supermicro SMC2108 (LSI MegaRAID) controllers and 3 PX-128M5Pro SSDs ( RAID1 + hostswap). I helped deploy a couple petabytes of storage behind LSI MegaRAID SAS 9260-8i's which is the same card. never had any