[Novalug] Dell raid utilities - centos 4?

[Megan Larko]

Hi All,

I will admit that the MegaCli utility does not have great documentation, but I have found some and added my own.   If anyone is interested in MegaCli command line info, pls contact me and I will send the documentation I have.

megan

----- Original Message -----
From: John Franklin <franklin at elfie.org>
To: American Dave <novalug at soupy.org>
Cc: novalug at calypso.tux.org
Sent: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 23:16:12 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Re: [Novalug] Dell raid utilities - centos 4?

+1 that.  The MegaCli makes no effort to be user friendly or provide  
anything remotely like a clear error message.  Anytime I end up using  
it, the help is no help, and I have to search online for command  
examples before I can get anything done.  I just had a drive die here  
and it was honestly faster and easier for me to simply reboot and use  
the RAID BIOS.

jf

On Jun 12, 2009, at 4:37 PM, American Dave wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 04:23:02PM -0400, Megan Larko wrote:
>> Nick Danger wrote:
>>
>> Hi Nick,
>>>
>>> I have a Dell 2450 (OLD!) running CentOS 4 and I dont have raid
>>> management. What tools do I need to install??
>>
>> We have Dells in my office.  They are newer and use Perc6/i.   The
>> software is MegaCli64 (for 64-bit OS).   I don't know if MegaCli  
>> (yes,
>> there is a 32-bit version) was the software used for the Perc3.
>
> I ran into MegaCli many moons ago.  It was then undocumented and had  
> an
> archaic syntax.  Here's an example:
>
>  MegaCli -LDInfo -L0 -aALL
>
> I have PERC6/i's as well, though I've been using Dell's OMSA software
> to manage them.  After using Dell's commands, I think I might have
> to retract what I said about MegaCli.
>
> I miss HP's hpacucli.
> -A. Dave
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