Re: Update via SL 7.5 install USB flash drive

2018-10-18 Thread Yasha Karant
Larry, Thank you for your workaround.  I will experiment with it. It is not angst (unless you consider the Great Firewall of the PRC an issue for angst), but rather the inability to have bibliographic integrity.  A URL can be a bibliographic reference, just as is a proper reference to a journa

Re: is the disk failing ?

2018-10-18 Thread Radha Mohan
On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 11:52 AM Paul Robert Marino wrote: > > Radha, > Over the decades of my dealing with hundreds of thousands of disks in data > centers my experience comes down to this. > 1) if smart says its going to die trust it its rarely wrong about failures. > 2) if smart says its fine,

Re: LSI MegaRAID management

2018-10-18 Thread Paul Robert Marino
LSI got split up a few years back the SANS went to Netapp and the raids went to Broadcom you should be able to find the linux tools here https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.broadcom.com_support_download-2Dsearch_-3Fpg-3D-26pf-3D-26pn-3D-26pa-3D-26po-3D-26dk-3DMegaRAID-2B9266-2D

Re: LSI MegaRAID management

2018-10-18 Thread Alec Habig
LSI puts out an rpm, the one I've got laying around from an old install is MegaCli-8.01.06-1.i386.rpm Current version is either at your vendor's drivers page, or presumably from LSI's own website. I run the attached cronjob nightly to get an email report of the array's health: Checking RAID st

LSI MegaRAID management

2018-10-18 Thread Adam Jensen
I have a MegaRAID 9266-4i card with four 2TB drives configured as a RAID-5. $ lspci -vvv | grep -i raid 02:00.0 RAID bus controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic MegaRAID SAS 2208 [Thunderbolt] (rev 05) Subsystem: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic MegaRAID SAS 9266-4i Kernel driver in use: me

Re: is the disk failing ?

2018-10-18 Thread Paul Robert Marino
Radha, Over the decades of my dealing with hundreds of thousands of disks in data centers my experience comes down to this. 1) if smart says its going to die trust it its rarely wrong about failures. 2) if smart says its fine, but you are getting IO errors use the badblocks and or fdisk to verify.

Re: Update via SL 7.5 install USB flash drive

2018-10-18 Thread P. Larry Nelson
Yasha, Did you try clicking on Nico's link? ProofPoint decodes their obfuscated re-write, checks to make sure it's a legit site, then opens the proper page. I just clicked on it and it took me to Nico's github scripts area. Our campus (UIUC) has used it for many years now. Fermilab just start