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тАО04-05-2007 03:11 PM
тАО04-05-2007 03:11 PM
SA-5304 and Array Config 7.60 disappointments
1. cannot blink drives.
2. cannot test spares periodically
3. status messages (log) are not dated.
4. status messages are cleared upon reboot. This is terrible if one wants to examine a history.
5. does not automatically refresh after a rebuild. I had a drive go bad, reinsrted it and a rebuild on a 4GB partition started. After a long wait, I clicked on the "refresh" icon and, lo and behold, the operation had already completed. However, the drive icon was still in its rebuild mode until I clicked refresh.
6. does not display any progress information during a rebuild.
7. the controller does not display devices found on the SCSI bus during POST.
8. controller does not format or surface scan drives duting POST.
These all seem to be pretty basic features for any RAID card. Unless I'm missing something here, I'm disappointed with this setup.
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тАО04-05-2007 03:16 PM
тАО04-05-2007 03:16 PM
Re: SA-5304 and Array Config 7.60 disappointments
No beep, no window message, nothing.
Surely this is a supported feature?
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тАО04-07-2007 12:24 AM
тАО04-07-2007 12:24 AM
Re: SA-5304 and Array Config 7.60 disappointments
The SA-5304 is a VERY old card, but i've had it doing some of the things above. Make sure you install the relevant PSP for your O/S (get the latest one). I'd also make sure your firmware is up2date on such an old card.
You can blink drives from the O/S ACU as well. If it's MSwindows there is a gui in the start menu for the ACU (and a gui to setup the email alerts), in linux there is a tui you can use.
You can also view it in a web page through the SMH (system management homepage, installed with the PSP at https://yourservername:2381
My servers that had 5302's always rebuild themselves, always displayed devices on post (these will come under the smart array controller post, not the machine post - it's when it spin's the drives up, and will also show you the configured array's
History of errors is displayed in the IML (integrated management log) which can be viewed through ilo, SMH, windows gui & novell/linux tui.
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тАО04-07-2007 03:59 AM
тАО04-07-2007 03:59 AM
Re: SA-5304 and Array Config 7.60 disappointments
This is becoming a greater learning experience than I anticipated. This server is for my home/business use. I purchased it for its redundant features and did not want to become a server administrator, per se.
Now, having to deal with PSP, Insight Manager, SMH, SNMP, Agents I'm a bit overwhelmed but getting there.
Installed latest firmware for ROM, controller and whatever SmartStart did. Installed Insight Manager and SMH and now I can see IML and blink drives.
What I need next is to setup an alert for sound and popup when errors occur. I assume that's where SNMP comes in? A brief readup on this and it's over my head.
Of course, I will set it up but any thoughts for a quick fix are appreciated.
Also, during machine POST, controller revs up and displays spinning slashes but not the drive list. Entering its software does display them.
Finally, what's the successor to this controller? I decided on it because U3 is fast enough for me (Seagate ST373405LC's) and it's dirt cheap used. Anything better and cheap?
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тАО04-07-2007 07:27 PM
тАО04-07-2007 07:27 PM
Re: SA-5304 and Array Config 7.60 disappointments
On w2k3 you can setup alerts for hardware failure etc.
Start > Programs > HP Management Agents > event notifier config. You need to set a server for the agent to relay errors off, and email addresses for it to send the email to. You can specify multiple email addresses, so you may be able to sent an email to your mobile phone (if your provider supports it).
Not displaying the actual disks in the array controller post may not be a feature of either the firmware on the card (it has it's own firmware vs the bios version) - this may be resolved by updating it - if not then it's not a feature of the card.
Successor to this controller is the SA6402. As you've got a pretty simple server (ie only 1 using 1 channel of scsi) and throughput is fine, you can upgrade to one of the following models
SA6402
SA641
SA642
These are all Ultra320. The SA5302 & 6402 were upgradable to 4 channel (they come 2 channel) and you can also put more cache ram in the controller. I'd suggest sticking with the one you have, unless you can determine if the backplane in the server supports U320 (being a G2 i'm thinking it won't.