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Old 09-21-2009
Search Device Status in GNU Linux
I have an old PC with mirrored disk arrays. One of the hot swapable disk drives is bad and needs to be replaced, I know this because the drives' light has turned amber.

This server has Linux installed. I am not familiar with Linux, but I need this servers because it is running Postfix and is a relay host for many of our production Solaris Machines.

Could anyone please guide me on how to see drive status through the command line and pinpoint which hard drive has failed .

#dmesg does not give me a clue and #iostat -en command does not work, or atleast I donot know how to use it.
Quote:
[root@webserver root]# uname -srvmpio
Linux 2.4.24 #2 SMP Thu Feb 12 13:32:01 EST 2004 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
Quote:
[myname@webserver]$ df -k
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/cciss/c0d0p1 4127076 900092 3017340 23% /
none 775932 0 775932 0% /dev/shm
/dev/cciss/c0d0p5 6190664 1434904 4441292 25% /usr
/dev/cciss/c0d0p2 28898108 16688772 10741400 61% /var/lib/mysql
/dev/cciss/c0d0p3 28708276 5670832 21579144 21% /var/spool
thanks
# 2  
Old 09-21-2009
The fact that the paths are showing up the way they are makes me think it is running on an HP server with onboard RAID controller. Do you have any tools to manage the server from the manufacturer?

Can you reboot the server and check the firmware for the RAID controller? This is a good example of why things should be documented in case a primary contact is unavailable, but it should be fixable.
# 3  
Old 09-22-2009
Unfortunately, I have no documentation, but yes we can schedule an outage and check the firmware for the RAID configuration.
Thanks
# 4  
Old 09-22-2009
If you have a spare drive, you can probably replace it during the downtime, assuming you are, in fact, using some sort of redundancy on that controller. Then, you can force a rebuild in the firmware.
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