Re: how to check status of mirror handled by BIOS?
- From: "Magnate" <not@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 13:04:12 GMT
"Jay G. Scott" <gl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote
i have a dell 2950. the system disks are mirrored in hardware
at the BIOS level. the OS thus only sees one disk.
Do you have a true hardware RAID controller, or are you using what's called
BIOS RAID (aka ATARAID, fakeraid)? This is not true hardware RAID.
can i check the status of the mirror without rebooting?
the lights are blue, not orange, but i'd like a way to
What lights? Where are they? What are they connected to?
confirm that the mirror is up and synced. the disk
activity lights flash like they should, but.... i'd
like a warm fuzzy.
AFAIK most hardware RAID controllers *do* have a way of letting you monitor
the status of the mirror without rebooting. You will need to look up the
exact model of your controller, but it should be possible.
AFAIK most fakeraid controllers do not have such a facility. I could be
wrong, but mine certainly needs a reboot in the BIOS to do any management or
monitoring of the arrays (it's a Silicon Image SiI3112A).
If you don't know which you have, capture the output of lspci and post it
here.
CC
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