06-03-2010
Problem with External Raid Controller.
Hi,
We have a Sunfire 4150 with On-Board Internal Raid Controller connected to 4 X 146 GB SAS disks.
This also has an External Raid Controller (Storagetek Eight-Port, External HBA
Model SG-XPCIESAS-R-EXT-Z) connected to a JBOD array ( Storagetek XTA2530 ) which has 5 X 300 GB Hard disk.
When the system is powered on The kernel of External Raid controller starts up first and after POST , it gives the message No drives found.
Next the Internal controller bios comes up and shows the 4 hard disks.
Now when we press Ctrl+A and get in to the Raid Controller Bios the internal controller shows all the 4 hard disks.
However the external controller does not show any drives at all.
Once we boot into Solaris or Linux and run Commn Array manager ( in out-of-band mode) it shows the 5 hard disks and allows us to create volumes. But after that
when we tried to create file systems it just hangs. We tried to create a small filesystem of 1GB. Even that is not going through in both Solaris and Linux.
Can some one help me please.
Thanking you all in anticipation
With warm regards
Ranjansukumar
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array-info
array-info(1) array-info(1)
NAME
array-info - check the status of a HP (Compaq) SmartArray controller
SYNOPSIS
array-info -d array_device_path [-a|-l|-A|-c|-s|-L|-h]
DESCRIPTION
Array-info is a command line tool to retrieve informations and logical drives status from several RAID controllers (currently HP Compaq IDA
and CISS and MD). It displays informations about the firmware version, Rom revision, number of physical and logical drives on the con-
troller, aswell as the fault tolerance, size, number of physical disks and status for each logical drive.
OPTIONS
--device | -d
Path to array device, e.g. /dev/ida/c0d0 or /dev/cciss/c0d1
--all-drives | -a
Show informations about all drives
--logical drive | -l
Show informations about selected logical drive
--show-ctrl | -c
Show informations about controller
--show-logical | -L
Show informations about logical drives
--show-physical | -p
Show physical device informations
--show-status | -s
Show status of logical drives
--show-all | -A
Show all informations
--version | -V
Show version
-h Show help about options
COPYRIGHT
This manual page was written by Raphael Pinson <<raphink@ubuntu.com>>. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this docu-
ment under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation.
2006-12-15 array-info(1)