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how to detect raid 'n harddisk specs from commandline
| Posted by n0_0b, 02-22-2008, 01:32 PM |
| Hi!
can someone tell me how can i remotly( SSH) figure out what kind of raid controller is on my system?!
and how many harddisks my system has and what size?!
I am working on Linux( Centos4)
if i do
#df -h
then i get 146 G
so if my system has raid1, does it mean that the harddisk is 2 X 146 G ?!
or i should actually see it as 146 / 2 ?!
i am very confused, could someone please help me out with this?!
many many thanks in advance!
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| Posted by Adam H, 02-22-2008, 02:01 PM |
| With RAID1 you will only see 1 disk. As it is two disk mirrored together to form one.
So what you are seeing is correct.
Post the output of to see your RAID controller details.
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| Posted by Jeremy, 02-22-2008, 02:03 PM |
| If you have 2 HD's in an Raid1 it would look like 1 drive.
IE HD1 mirrors to HD2 or the other way around.
dmesg or lspci would show what raid card your running.
1 Post and Temporarily Suspended sweet.
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| Posted by dexxtreme, 02-23-2008, 03:34 AM |
| Actually, /proc/mdstat only shows your details if you have *software* RAID, and shows nothing if you have a *hardware* controller. You will need to install whatever software tools came with the RAID controller in order to determine the array status.
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| Posted by david510, 02-23-2008, 07:42 AM |
| You can install 3ware raid controller for this. It helps in monitoring the raid from the tw_cli command prompt.
http://www.3ware.com/
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| Posted by Blackknight, 02-24-2008, 02:25 PM |
| What hardware did you order? lspci should show everything that's installed if you want to verify things.
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