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megacli: Failed to alloc kernel SGL buffer for IOCTL

Today one of my servers started sending me alerts about non-optimal RAID state. These were triggered by a very simple script run by cron -- if it detects that not all of the disks report 'Optimal' state, it sends an alert. Now, the issue is that the…
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LSI MegaRAID 84016e reboots server

Have problem with my LSI 84016e. Have mobo Supermicro x8sil-f. Have installed RAID adapter, have booted to Debian 7, have created RAID10 and started just simple dd write test. Several beeps and server goes to reboot. In dmesg/messages logs Buffer IO…
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Merge two sas card into one

I have one existing raid card (9240-8i)with 8 sas hdd, but i want to add 8 more hdd with another raid card (same model), but i wan to merge with existing raid and add it as expansion, can it be done?
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Is it possible to use megacli to copy from one partition to another?

Except "dd" and "rsync", is it possible to directly use the megacli command to copy one partition to another? I am using h310 raid controller, and it seems not working well using "dd" or "rsync", which sometimes results in firemware failure, reset…
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LSI MegaRaid live conversion from RAID 6 to RAID 0+1

I've currently got a lovely working server that has an LSI 9265-8i RAID card in it with 4x1TB RE4 drives, also running CacheCade Pro 2.0 with 2x180GB SSDs in RAID1. I currently have the main array running on RAID6, as much as I like it. I think…
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LSI Megaraid 150-6 as regular SATA controller

I have an old but reliable server board that does not have any SATA ports on it. Also i have LSI Megararaid 150-6 (with latest firmware) which i want to use as ordinary "dumb" SATA controller. I don't want to use any RAID functionality of the…
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Enabling Temperature Support on LSI MegaRaid Cards

I've got two IBM ServeRAID M5014 SAS/SATA Controller cards in two different machines. One reports drive temperatures, the other does not. I am hopping that it is some type of megacli option that I can set. However, I have looked throughout the…
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RAID: replacing a disk before it fails

We have a RAID 5 setup (Megaraid SAS ROMB) with 4 930 Gb physical disks running as a 2.7 TB VD. Recently (a few months back) we had a drive fail and had to leave it in degraded mode for ages (various factors, wish we didn't but it's not in the scope…
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How to find out the amount of sectors available in a RAID physical disk for replacement?

So, to start with, let me confess I have no knowledge of RAID besides what I read in a few APC mags 5 years back and what the acronym stands for. Everything I know now comes from assumptions and the past day's research. We have a LSI MegaRaid array…
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Megaraid Firmware fault

After building a new server (IBM X3550). Getting error Firmware is in Fault state: MFI register state 0xF0FF2102. -- For this one could not get any help in google. And on the BIOS system setting getting the message: Driver Health Protocol: Missing…
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Megacli check returns "OK;NRPE: Unable to read output"

There is an icinga server set up to run check_megaraid_sas. It has been working beautifully for the last ~7 months. During this time several "Unable to read output" messages have shown up for a variety of reasons, and in all of those cases the…
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MegaRAID Storage Manager Error 1920 "Service MRMonitor (MegaMonitorSrv) failed to start." on Windows Server 2003 R2 x64

I'm trying to install the MegaRAID Storage Manager 8.10 provided by SUPERMICRO, but I keep getting an error 1920 that "Service MRMonitor (MegaMonitorSrv) failed to start. Verify that you have sufficient privileges to start system services." I'm…
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setup raid 6 with 12 - 2 TB drives

I have two 500GTB 7.2k Sata 2.5in drives, plus twelve 2TB drives, and LSI 9260-8i SAS/SATA Card. I need to have OS on one label the rest for storage. I am unsure how to build the raid6. It has the LSI MegaRaid utility. Should I build it all as one…
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Supermicro won't boot from raid virtual drive after a power outage

One of our supermicro servers won't boot from the virtual drive on a MegaRAID SAS 9361-8i after a power outage. It can still boot from a USB stick without trouble, all hard drives and file systems seem to be intact. The correct drive is not shown as…
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ESXi does not show drives for second RAID controller with NVMe drives

I got a second RAID controller (AVAGO 9440-8i) to put in my Dell T440 server (first RAID controller is a H740P). I got the Broadcom U.2 enabler cable and two WD Gold 2TB drives. I've updated ESXi, the lsi_mr3 package, the whole original Dell-system…
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