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* 3ware Raid
@ 2003-05-09 13:42 Michael Knigge
  2003-05-09 14:30 ` Mike Dresser
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Michael Knigge @ 2003-05-09 13:42 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel

Hi all,

this is not a "kernel-only" question but maybe someone who knows 3ware 
raid controllers (and the driver) could help me.

Currently my 3ware 6xxx RAID controller tells me that my RAID-Array 
(stripe-set with two maxtor 120 GB disks) is incomplete (even if I 
delete the array and create a new one - after a reboot the array is 
marked "incomplete").

The BIOS of the 3ware controller shows me both disks, but one is 
always makred as "available" and the raid-array is missing one drive.

The strange part: the Linux kernel doesn't care about this and mounts 
my array correctly! And the array works so far - it seems to me, don't 
know if there will be any surprises the next days ;-)


Now... should I care about this? Is my array broken or not? And why 
does the Linux driver think my array is ok and the 3ware BIOS not?

Thanks for any help,
  Michael







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* Re: 3ware Raid
  2003-05-09 13:42 3ware Raid Michael Knigge
@ 2003-05-09 14:30 ` Mike Dresser
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Mike Dresser @ 2003-05-09 14:30 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel

On Fri, 9 May 2003, Michael Knigge wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> this is not a "kernel-only" question but maybe someone who knows 3ware
> raid controllers (and the driver) could help me.
>
> Currently my 3ware 6xxx RAID controller tells me that my RAID-Array
> (stripe-set with two maxtor 120 GB disks) is incomplete (even if I
> delete the array and create a new one - after a reboot the array is
> marked "incomplete").
>
> The BIOS of the 3ware controller shows me both disks, but one is
> always makred as "available" and the raid-array is missing one drive.
>
> The strange part: the Linux kernel doesn't care about this and mounts
> my array correctly! And the array works so far - it seems to me, don't
> know if there will be any surprises the next days ;-)
>
>
> Now... should I care about this? Is my array broken or not? And why
> does the Linux driver think my array is ok and the 3ware BIOS not?
>
> Thanks for any help,
>   Michael

what does tw_cli say about your drive?

Can you post the output of ./tw_cli info cx where x is whatever number it
decided was your controller(which seems to be random :D)

Mike


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