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I'm looking to do a bit more monitoring of my 3ware 9550 with smartd, and wanted to see what others were doing with smart for monitoring 3ware hardware. Do you have the smartd.conf configured to test, or simply monitor health status? Are you monitoring the drive as centos sees it (/dev/sdX) or are you using the 3ware /dev/twaX for monitoring? Opin...

On Thu, May 28, 2015 10:46 am, Kirk Bocek wrote: > > > On 5/26/2015 11:07 AM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: >> Push came to shove - these things gag on a drive > 2TB. > > I ran into this a couple of years ago with some older 3Ware cards. A > firmware update fixed it. > With 3ware cards depending on card model: 1. the card supports drives > 2TB 2. the card as initially released does not support these drives, but there is firmware update after installation of which the card will supports drives > 2TB 3. The card...

I have the latest kernel with the drivers for my 3ware 9550SX built in. Where can I find the tools and monitoring apps for this card? Are there rpms hiding somewhere, or do I need to build it from source? -- Bowie

...2015 9:03 AM, Valeri Galtsev wrote: >> On Thu, May 28, 2015 10:46 am, Kirk Bocek wrote: >>> On 5/26/2015 11:07 AM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: >>>> Push came to shove - these things gag on a drive > 2TB. >>> I ran into this a couple of years ago with some older 3Ware cards. A firmware update fixed it. >> With 3ware cards depending on card model: >> 1. the card supports drives > 2TB >> 2. the card as initially released does not support these drives, but there >> is firmware update after installation of which the card will supports driv...

Hi! I know this is a little bit offtopic, but i couldn't think of any other place where i can get uninfluenced first hand information on these controllers :) I've read about and experienced data loss/system lockup with older 3ware controllers, but the 3ware Escalade 7xxx (i'm especially interested in the 7850) sounds too good to ignore it (8 channels, 8 drives, raid 0/1/5/10, drive-side ide bus, system-side scsi bus). Does anybody use Escalade 7xxx in production systems? How does it perform? If it's not any good, do...

I've been having no end of issues with a 3ware 9650SE-24M8 in a server that's coming on a year old. I've got 24 WDC WD5001ABYS drives (500GB) hooked to it, running as a single RAID6 w/ a hot spare. These issues boil down to the card periodically throwing errors like the following: sd 1:0:0:0: WARNING: (0x06:0x002C): Command (0x8a)...

Hi, I've CentOS5 box with 3ware RAID controller in it. I can't get the tw_cli command line tool to work, and smartd also barks on me. The tw_cli simply doesn't see the controller, no errors logged anywhere. When starting smartd, it is much more verbose. I'm getting a bunch of messages like this: Oct 9 22:15:15 t...

I'm trying to do a fresh install on a new server that has a 3ware 9000 controller. I followed the instructions on the 3ware manual and used a floppy with the drivers for RH WS3 (Update 2) but it doesn't work. After it asks me to load the disk it reads for a while and then it says it did not find any drivers that pertain to this system. I tried loading the 3w9...

CentOS Community, What commands can I use to check the disk health of the system when LVM2 is being used on top of a RAID 10 using a HARDWARE 3ware raid card. The OS sees a hardware raid usually as one big drive. Is there a way to check the disks individually to see if any are failing, or throwing hard or scsi transport errors?

Hello list, I see through the archives that some people here use 3ware RAID controllers with Centos. I have picked up two 9500S-4LP controllers for future servers. I was hoping that if some people could please share their 3ware monitoring scripts with the rest of the group. What I am really hoping to do is have some setup where a cron job runs scripts to test each of...

Slightly OT, but this looks like a good place to find a lot of disk controller experience. Since I need to swap out some dodgy hardware anyway, I am thinking about upgrading to one of the 4 port 3ware IDE RAID cards. It will only be in a 2 disk mirror config, however, I am hoping that it will give a nice speed boost Any thoughts on compatibility with dual cpu machines? Any one have any anecdotes on stability or compatability? Are there any pros or cons of going up or down the range, ie older...

All: Thanks to everyone who participated in the rather long thread recently about RAID arrays and CentOS. I have been needing to research RAID for CentOS for some time, so the discussion was timely for me. Based on the discussion in that thread, I bought a 3ware 9650SE card and a bunch of WD drives. I was told by 3ware that 9650SE driver will likely not be in the CentOS 5 kernel (unless RH put it there) since it is based on 2.6.18. The 9650SE driver is not in the Linux kernel until 2.6.19. However, 3ware said they would be happy to provide a d...

I have a raid 50 array on a 3ware controller. The box is running centos 6.5 and the file system is ext4. I'm going to try some other filesystems, but could anyone suggest any alternative raid setups as well as stripe sizes I should try? The old server uses the same controller on a centos 5.10 setup, using ext3, and it perf...

Afternoon I upgraded our oss''s from 1.8.3 to 1.8.4 on Saturday (due to https://bugzilla.lustre.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22755) and suffered a great deal of pain. We have 30 oss''s of multiple vintages. The basic difference between them is * md on first 20 nodes * 3ware 9650SE ML12 on last 10 nodes After the upgrade to 1.8.4 we were seeing terrible throughput on the nodes with 3ware cards (and only the nodes with 3ware cards). This was typified by see the block device being 100% utilised (iostat), doing about 100r/s and 400kb/s and all the ost_io threads in D st...

I just built up a server running CentOS 4.3, and trying to boot from a 3Ware 9550SX-16ML, 16 port card. This system has 9x500GB drives, AMD Opteron, Tyan K8SD mobo and 1 GB of ram. I downloaded the latest (9.3.0.4) driver from 3Ware, and after a couple of botched attempts, I got CentOS installed. In my two botched attempts, the problem was X hanging during the formatting of...

Just came in from Bugzilla ... Subject: [Bug 121434] Extremely high iowait with 3Ware array and moderate disk activity https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=121434 ------- Additional Comments From thomas.oulevey at elonex.ch 2005-07-29 08:55 EST ------- Hello, About the Linux 2.4 driver, we realized that we have big problem with the 9.2 driver. The 9.1.5.2 was fine....

Hi everyone, I'm looking into setting up a SATA hardware raid, probably 5 to use with CentOS 4. I chose hardware raid over software mostly because I like the fact that the raid is transparent to the OS. Does anyone know of any SATA controllers that are well tested for this sort of usage? From what I can tell from googling, this is more or less where RHEL stands: Red Hat Enterprise Linux

In regard of the e-mail sent on Jul/16/04 about the 3Ware 9500S. Has anyone experienced/solved this issue ?? I'm having a similar problem, I already have the system installed on a separate disk, now I want to make the filesystem on the RAID partition (using 3Ware 9500S-8). First I had the problem that the card will keep resetting after continou...

Hi, I'm trying to install K12LTSP based on CentOS 5.0-el 32bits kernel 2.6.18-8 on a server with 3ware 9650SE raid controller. Does anybody know where I can find a driver diskette for the raid controller as this is only supported from kernel 2.6.19. Thanks for any help Gert

Unfortunately, it doesn't appear that CentOS 5 Beta (or likely final) supports the 3ware 9650se card. Since 3ware hasn't released a driver disk yet, I put one together. It supports CentOS 5 Beta, and may/should support Final. If anyone is interested, I've posted it here: http://www.truedesign.org/3ware-centos5/ Jason