How could I accomplish that? Are you talking about
software RAID or hardware RAID. I'm using a hardware
RAID controller, and as far as I can tell, the OS
really thinks there is just one drive.
--- Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> hi joe
>
> what kind of raid1 failures are you trying to
> find/monitor ??
>
> i would just send a test file to disk...and see it i
> can
> recover the test files from the mirrore'd set
>
> - if your test file does nto show up on the
> mirror...
> you have to go and check why not
>
> - Some raid monitoring sw ( from various raid
> posters )
>
>
http://www.Linux-Consulting.com/Raid/Docs/raid_monitor*
>
>
> have fun
> alvin
> http://www.linux-1U.net ... 640Gb Raid5 in 1U
> chassis
> http://www.Linux-Consulting.com/Raid
>
>
> On Mon, 5 Mar 2001, Joseph Bueno wrote:
>
> > Joe Janitor wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi:
> > >
> > > Dell Poweredge 2450 running RH6.2, PERC2
> hardware raid
> > > controller - RAID1 configuration.
> > >
> > > I want to know how I can monitor the status of
> the two
> > > drives, or at least know if one has failed. I
> looked
> > > in the FAQ, but my /proc/mdstat only reads:
> > > Personalities :
> > > read_ahead not set
> > > unused devices: <none>
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Joe
> > >
> > >
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> > Hi,
> >
> > I also have DELL PowerEdge 2450/PERC2 raid and
> RH62.
> >
> > The only way I have found to monitor RAID status
> is
> > to use 'afacli' utility. You can download it from
> Dell site.
> > However, it is an interactive tool and I have not
> been able to
> > use it in batch mode (I usually set up some
> monitoring scripts
> > that monitor system operations and email me some
> reports).
> >
> > I am currently considering NOT using Dell servers
> anymore because:
> > - PERC2 driver is a binary only module that is
> available
> > for RH62 (and may be RH7 now) only.
> > - No support for Linux 2.4 kernels.
> > - Dell told us that these machines ran standard
> Linux kernel,
> > this is wrong since a binary only driver
> available from Dell is
> > necessary.
> >
> > Hope this helps
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