[svlug] SiI 3114 and checking RAID status on a live system

Florin Andrei florin at andrei.myip.org
Thu Feb 15 12:09:25 PST 2007


Tim Utschig wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 10:01:45AM -0800, Florin Andrei wrote:
>> I've a system that's using a SiI 3114 controller for RAID1. Is there a 
>> way to check the status of the RAID arrays from the command line on a 
>> live system? (without rebooting the system, without entering the BIOS 
>> utility)
>>
>> I looked in /proc but couldn't find anything.
> 
>>From what I can tell from searching, and experience with a couple Sil
> 3124-based controllers, I think that may be a fakeraid controller.

Yup, according to Jeff Garzik, that seems to be the case indeed.

That machine is actually using LVM, it's not on hardware RAID. :-/ Sorry 
for the false problem.

Now I need to figure out what LVM is actually doing on that system.

Thanks,

-- 
Florin Andrei

http://florin.myip.org/




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