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How long should a RAID Reconfiguration take? (Adaptec 6805)

I'm experimenting with various RAID configurations of a new Adaptec 6805 (not the 'E' model) Attached are 8x Hitachi 5400RPM 2TB SATA 6Gb Drives using the miniSAS to SATA cables provided. I created a RAID6 array comprising four disks, two from…
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Monitoring hardware RAID on VMWare ESXi

I've got an ESXi 3.5 server on "unsupported" hardware - SuperMicro motherboard, Adaptec 9410 3405 RAID controller (oops, the 9410 is the onboard controller that's not being used for RAID) - and I'm starting to wonder what the point of RAID is,…
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Possible to migrate RAID 10 system from 2TB Seagate to 2TB WD?

A couple of our servers have ST32000641AS (2TB Seagate desktop drives) in RAID 10 using an Adaptec 2405 controller. I've been told by Adaptec that this is a bad idea and we have, in fact, already seen one raid system go down using these drives. …
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Adaptec pm80xx Driver Drops Drives Randomly

I'm building a ZFS NAS using an Adaptec ASA-71605H HBA on Ubuntu 12.04.4. Modern Linux kernels ship with the open-source version of the required pm80xx kernel module. Adaptec provides a driver for Ubuntu 12.04 theirself and I tested both with the…
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How can I modify the Ubuntu Server install CD to add a hardware driver?

I found this link to modify an Ubuntu install CD. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/InstallCDCustomization However, I want to put the Adaptec aic94xx RAID driver onto the disk so that my RAID controller is recognised and I can set up a mirror. How…
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Adaptec RAID Controler - Logical device in Failed state

I have a hardware Adaptec ASR8405 RAID controller on which I have 15 disk RAID6 Array. One of the disks broke and after the replacement the Controller did not pick up on it, did not start the rebuild but went into Failed state instead (see…
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Abort raid6 expansion on Adaptec 52445 SATA RAID?

I am expanding my raid6 array from 18x2Tb to 20x2Tb disks and after 3 weeks status shows: Logical device Task: Logical device : 0 Task ID : 105 Current operation : Reconfiguration …
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Adaptec 2405 "Knight Rider" LEDs - fault?

I have an Adaptec 2405 installed on ESXi 5.0. When the card is idle, it flashes the red LEDs back and forth, Knight Rider -style, just like this video. Is this normal, or is this a fault? I have dug everywhere through the manuals and can't seem to…
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Use a RAID Controller without drivers?

Ordered an Adaptec 1420SA RAID card for my Debian Squeeze media server but didn't check to see if it was compatible, turns out it's not because it uses something called hostRAID which requires special drivers that aren't available for Debian. Could…
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Why is one drive running at 3.0gb/s?

I have a server where I will be updating the Adaptec RAID controllers firmware and drivers soon, and so I was arcconf to check a few things. The four disks are all the same model configured as a RAID10 volume. In running the GETCONFIG of arcconf, I…
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How to solve intermittent server hangs? Write to (and read from) a disk stops completely

We have a LAMP server for about 6 months. CentOS 7.0 It ran non stop without a restart for the first 3 months then it hang. Then it run for the next 2 months (also non stop without a restart) then it hang again. Then it run for the 14 days then it…
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Confusion about write-cache setting and write-cache status on Adaptec Raid-Controller

Because of performance issues I wanted to verify that Write-Caching is indeed enabled for the Adaptec ASR71605 Raid-Controller. I can see a mismatch between write-cache setting=enabledand write-cache status=off and I wonder if the cache is actually…
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Raid 10, Logical device are missing

I have a problem with a RAID 10, I have 4 disks on raid. A disc has just been changed (0,3). But I can not rebuild the array. Logical device are setted as "Missing". All commands return to me the following error /usr/StorMan# /usr/StorMan/arcconf…
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Adaptec 5805 on Centos 6 IRQ 16 error

I'm having a problem with Adaptec 5805 raid card http://www.adaptec.com/en-us/support/raid/sas_raid/sas-5805/ (with two SAS discs in raid) and Gigabyte motherboard…
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Adaptec 7901 RAID 10 Degraded Drive - Cannot Rebuild

I have a Tyan server with an onboard AIC-7901. One drive out of four in a RAID10 array is marked as degraded. I power down, pop out the offending drive, put in a good one, reboot and go into Adaptec Storage Manager. However, it errors when I try to…
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