RAID 1 on HP XW8200

[pierre gauthier]

I have successfully configured RAID 1
on my XW8200 (LSI Logic Ultra320 SCSI controller with 2 300 Gb drives). I have installed Red Hat WS 3.0 Update 3 on that system. I have tested the mirror by disconnecting one of the drives and everything works fine.

I wonder how I can detect the status of mirror.
I tried the LSI Logic Cim browser utility but it does not provide details about the mirror.
Their doc says I should see some redundancy status from their Java based tool.

Any ideas/suggestions? Is this a limitation of the HP XW8200 BIOS? The HP specs says RAID 1 works on the XW8200 but it doesn't talk about tools to monitor the state of the mirror.

Thanks in advance for your help.

[Steven E. Protter]

Hardware mirrors can only be monitored by the tools are hardware specific.

There are tools for the server from HP a bundle that does provide the information you require.

State your server type and I can do a hp search, or you can go here, find your model and browse through the available tools.

http://welcome.hp.com/country/us/en/prodserv/servers.html

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