Questions tagged [megaraid-storage-manager]

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Megaraid Storage Manager - silence the daily Predictive Failure warning of a drive left in the drive bay

I have an IBM SAS drive that has enough faults to push the Predictive Failure counter past the threshold. I have removed the drive from the array (state is Unconfigured Good), but decided to keep it in one of the drive bays for now. I have Megaraid…
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Converting RPM packages for debian fails "due to shell metacharacters"

I am trying to convert the "MegaRAID Storage Manager" RPM packages to debian dep packages. I'm using the alien package therefor as explained here: https://hosting-tutorials.co.uk/tutorials/linux/installing-megaraid-storage-manager-on-debian This is…
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MegaRaid Storage Manager - lack of option "Create Virtual Drive"

I'm using MegaRaid Storage Manager v 14.11.01.00 I want to create second Virtual Drive. I see Scan Foreing Configuration Save Configuration Clear Configuration Preserved Cache (greyed) Update Controller Firmware In the documentation I see that…
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MegaRAID Storage Manager constantly beeping

I have a home-built Supermicro file server in my office with a very beepy RAID controller. It's about 4 years old, and for the first 2 years everything was fine. Around then a drive failed, which I replaced, nothing unusual. However since then,…
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IBM x3650 accidentally deleted RAID5 Virtual Drive

I've got an IBM x3650 M3 server that I inherited. It's got 6 physical disks with RAID 5 using 0,1,2,3 and RAID 1 using 4,5. Disk 3 has failed and now I'm getting 'Hard Disk 0 failed' and I can't even boot into the OS (Ubuntu). To make matters…
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MegaRAID: what does yellow "r" on drive icon mean?

One of our drives has a yellow square overlay on its icon in the Drives list. I think there's an "r" in the square (see image). I can't find this described in the MegaRAID manual anywhere. When I view drive properties while flipping back and…
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Add disk to virtual drive using MegaRaid Storage Manager

I have a RAID 5 setup on an LSI 9361-24i with three virtual drives and six physical disks. When I setup the arrays one of my disks was dead on arrival and I had to do an RMA with Western Digital, but the system had to go live that week so I went…
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Does MegaRAID support creation of initially degraded RAID array?

I want to make a RAID5 array out of 3 disks, copy data from the one disk I have then clear it and add as a spare to the array. A similar magic I can do in linux with mdadm utility (mdadm --create drv1 drv2 drv3 missing & mdadm --add drv4). I have a…
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Megaraid storage manager. How to add drive in RAID 0 with OS

I have a LSI megaraid sas 9271-8i controller and 8 physical drive. I have error on Slot 0. Media count error: 1568 and Pred fail error: 12. And I have error such as: How can I check a partition of physical disk in MegaRaid Storage Managment? I think…