Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 00:49:22 -0600 From: Stephane Raimbault <stephane@enertiasoft.com> To: Stephane Raimbault <stephane@enertiasoft.com> Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org, 'Alex Zbyslaw' <xfb52@dial.pipex.com>, Danny Cooper <freebsd@as9105.com> Subject: Re: Dell PowerEge 2850 and RAID Message-ID: <79AEC49E-5485-4EAA-BE19-AF6B89FD6F47@enertiasoft.com> In-Reply-To: <51F813D6-1D7E-4971-B37B-CEE213AFA655@enertiasoft.com> References: <20050622142654.B579643D48@mx1.FreeBSD.org> <51F813D6-1D7E-4971-B37B-CEE213AFA655@enertiasoft.com>
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I just discovered that a new port has been submited already on June 22nd by Gerrit Beine. ports/82512: New port: sysutils/megaraid. I don't see it in my latest cvsup of the ports tree, so I'm guessing it hasn't been committed into the tree yet. Thanks, Stephane On 24-Jun-05, at 12:28 AM, Stephane Raimbault wrote: > I also have a Dell PowerEdge 2850 with the PERC 4e/Di Raid card and > I found some interesting information tonight that will help us all > out. > > http://www.freebsd.org/news/press.html#story200505:02 > > Basically, LSI now supports FreeBSD and 5.4 seems to have the > updated drivers... so what does this mean? > > Well, I discovered that the PERC 4e/Di Raid card is the same thing > as the LSI MegaRAID 320-2X. So if you go to www.lsilogic.com and > go to the download section and find the downloads for the "LSI > MegaRAID 320-2x" you will see that there is a "driver" for FreeBSD. > > Download this file and unzip the contents. Inside there is a file > called "MegaRC 1.04.zip" Unzip that and you will have a file > called "megarc" make the file executable "chmod +x megarc" and run > the command "./megarc -option" > > This will give you some options that you can play with. > > So far I've discovered the following useful information: > > ./megarc -AllAdpInfo > This shows all your supported adapters. In my case it found > the following: > > AdapterNo FirmwareType CardType > 00 40LD/8SPAN PERC 4/DC > > > I then did this to display the status/configuration of the controller: > > ./megarc -dispCfg -a0 > > Finding Devices On Each MegaRAID Adapter... > Scanning Ha 0, Chnl 1 Target 15 > > Logical Drive : 0( Adapter: 0 ): Status: OPTIMAL > --------------------------------------------------- > SpanDepth :01 RaidLevel: 1 RdAhead : Adaptive Cache: > DirectIo > StripSz :064KB Stripes : 2 WrPolicy: WriteBack > > Logical Drive 0 : SpanLevel_0 Disks > Chnl Target StartBlock Blocks Physical Target Status > ---- ------ ---------- ------ ---------------------- > 0 00 0x00000000 0x043bc000 ONLINE > 0 01 0x00000000 0x043bc000 ONLINE > > > Logical Drive : 1( Adapter: 0 ): Status: OPTIMAL > --------------------------------------------------- > SpanDepth :02 RaidLevel: 1 RdAhead : Adaptive Cache: > DirectIo > StripSz :064KB Stripes : 2 WrPolicy: WriteBack > > Logical Drive 1 : SpanLevel_0 Disks > Chnl Target StartBlock Blocks Physical Target Status > ---- ------ ---------- ------ ---------------------- > 1 02 0x00000000 0x0887c000 ONLINE > 1 03 0x00000000 0x0887c000 ONLINE > > Logical Drive 1 : SpanLevel_1 Disks > Chnl Target StartBlock Blocks Physical Target Status > ---- ------ ---------- ------ ---------------------- > 1 04 0x00000000 0x0887c000 ONLINE > 1 05 0x00000000 0x0887c000 ONLINE > > > This correctly shows my 2 logical drives. > > Logical drive 0 (raid 1 between 2 36Gig 10K disks) > Drive 00 and 01 > > Logical drive 1 (raid 1 and spanned between 4 72Gig 15K disks) > Drive 02 and 03 spanned with > Drive 04 and 05 > > > > > Might I say... EXCITING times for Dell SCSI RAID owners > > > Cheers, > Stephane > > > On 22-Jun-05, at 8:26 AM, Danny Cooper wrote: > > >> We have the PE2850 with PERC 4e/Di controller but this can not be >> monitored >> through FreeBSD, I am currently looking at a Drac4 to send traps >> out to >> another server for monitoring purposes. >> >> Danny >> >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: owner-freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org >> [mailto:owner-freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Alex Zbyslaw >> Sent: 22 June 2005 14:49 >> To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org >> Subject: Dell PowerEge 2850 and RAID >> >> I'd really like to get some concrete information about RAID >> management >> under FreeBSD/i386 (5.4) on a Dell PowerEdge 2850. I don't have this >> machine, but it is looking very likely that a client will be >> getting one >> and I'd like to have positive things to say about running FreeBSD >> on it. >> >> My major concern is how to monitor the RAID status without >> resorting to >> looking at the LEDs flash on the disks (*). Ideally, I'd like to be >> able to run something from a cron job which told me that >> everything was >> OK. If errors were logged to /var/log/messages or similar, that >> would >> be a nice plus. >> >> As far as I can tell, the machine could have either an LSI 53C1030 >> controller or a Dell PERC 4e/Di controller. >> >> For the LSI I can see that it is supported by the mtp driver, but can >> find nothing else. >> >> For the Dell PERC 4e/Di (a different LSI, I believe) it seems to be >> supported by the amr driver and I have found various references out >> there to these working under FreeBSD, but nothing specifically about >> monitoring the RAID. >> >> If anyone can provide some concrete information, I'd be grateful. I >> have also explored the Dell and LSI sites, but neither appear to >> let you >> browse their downloads unless you are a registered customer. >> >> Thanks, >> >> --Alex >> >> (*) For a short saga on a RAID which didn't, and no-one knew about >> it, >> see >> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2005-June/ >> 090786.html >> >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hardware- >> unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hardware- >> unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hardware- > unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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