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Adaptec 5805 on Centos 6 IRQ 16 error

I'm having a problem with Adaptec 5805 raid card http://www.adaptec.com/en-us/support/raid/sas_raid/sas-5805/ (with two SAS discs in raid) and Gigabyte motherboard GA-H67A-D3H-B3 http://www....
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Adaptec 7901 RAID 10 Degraded Drive - Cannot Rebuild

I have a Tyan server with an onboard AIC-7901. One drive out of four in a RAID10 array is marked as degraded. I power down, pop out the offending drive, put in a good one, reboot and go into Adaptec ...
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Raid 5 Question

I have an HP ML150 Tower with Hot Plugs It was configured with Raid 5 Running 2 Drives... One is a mirror The first Drive in the Array failed. We ordered a new one. What happened was, the failed ...
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How long should a RAID Reconfiguration take? (Adaptec 6805)

I'm experimenting with various RAID configurations of a new Adaptec 6805 (not the 'E' model) Attached are 8x Hitachi 5400RPM 2TB SATA 6Gb Drives using the miniSAS to SATA cables provided. I created ...
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Adaptec SCSI Card 39160. What to do with it? [closed]

Almost 10 years ago I bough an Adaptec SCSI Card 39160 for two Hitachi hard disks, with 80/68 pins adapters and cables and all the accoutrements. The hard disks died after 2 years (so much for ...
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Failed RAID 5EE array

I've got failed RAID 5EE array (on a server running Windows Server 2003). After controller initialization it saysarrays have missing required members and cannot be configured. Adaptec Storage ...
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Adaptec 5805 RAID 1: need more space

We have a server with an Adaptec 5805 RAID 1 array, with two SAS 146GB disks. We need more space on this server. Is it possible to hot-replace each 146GB HD with a 300GB HD, and let the controller ...
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Use a RAID Controller without drivers?

Ordered an Adaptec 1420SA RAID card for my Debian Squeeze media server but didn't check to see if it was compatible, turns out it's not because it uses something called hostRAID which requires special ...
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Adaptec HostRaid RAID1 1/2 of HDD capacity

I have a server with Adaptec HostRaid controller. It has 2x 2TB drives. If I go to create a RAID0 array (striped), it will set the array's capacity to 2TB, when I go to create a RAID1 array (mirrored, ...
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Adaptec RAID 5 degraded but all HDD are reported as optimal

According to adaptec support site, data on a disk got corrupted. The disk is physically fine and thats why it shows up as optimal. The solution is to reinitialize the disk. The only problem is I can't ...
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Can RAID controller degrade my server's performance somehow?

I'm running a small IT company. Specifically less than 10 persons all are developers and no system administrator. I am so to say the owner doing much of work. So now I am asking the question being a ...
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Recommendation for Server 2008 RAID card with port multiplier support [closed]

I am currently building a large (20 TB) online data store and my first attempt has gone a bit awry. The use case for this storage is to have a non-backed up repository of data for a set of users to ...
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Adaptec 2610 RAID 1 - status 'Impacted'

I have created a second array using the 2nd and 3rd disks in the bay and ran through the process - its build but now showing a status of 'impacted'. How can i get this to 'optimal'? Thanks in ...
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Monitoring hardware RAID on VMWare ESXi

I've got an ESXi 3.5 server on "unsupported" hardware - SuperMicro motherboard, Adaptec 9410 3405 RAID controller (oops, the 9410 is the onboard controller that's not being used for RAID) - and I'm ...
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Adaptec 2420SA RAID 1 rebuild 66% after 1 week

We're running a 500GB RAID 1 on an Adaptec 2420SA - 2x500GB Hitachi Drives. It suddenly crashed and required a rebuild -- was not even booting. It's only at 66% after about a week. Very frustrated. ...
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How can I modify the Ubuntu Server install CD to add a hardware driver?

I found this link to modify an Ubuntu install CD. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/InstallCDCustomization However, I want to put the Adaptec aic94xx RAID driver onto the disk so that my RAID ...
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What is the right cache settings for Adaptec raid cards?

There are 2 possibilites to modify cache settings in the Adaptec Storage Manager. - Physical drive - Write-back or Write-through - Logical drive - Write-back, Write-back only with battery, write-...
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Failed Raid 5 on Adaptec 2010S

had a major problem with my Raid 5 yesterday. Adaptec Controller showed all 4 drives with status failed and the array was on failed too. I used raidutil to force it back to optimal state after reboot ...
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Adaptec 3405 failed: recover raid 5 set

Our RAID controller failed; it doesn't show up with a boot menu anymore, and the BIOS finds no disks. When we get a new controller, can we recreate the RAID set without losing data? IIUC, the ...
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