Re: how to check status of mirror handled by BIOS?

In comp.os.linux.setup Magnate <not@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
"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.

Iirc "dell 2950" sounds like a 19" rack server, so I guess it is
a real hw raid controller. 'lspci' should tell more, usually Dell
provides software for online checking. Some driver in addition
log faults to the kernel, though not all.

Checking which controller/driver is used and trying to find the
app to check/configure it sounds like the best idea.

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