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How to check if hot-swap or hot-plug are activated on my Linux machine
I have Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS 64-bit on a PowerEdge 2900. My current setup has two 300GB disks (no RAID), but I want migrate the system to three new 600GB disks. I'm trying to connect the new disks, make ...
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Install Fedora core 15 on HP Smart Array Controller HDD
I need to install "Fedora Core 15" Linux on to HP Smart Array Controller attached HDD.
Problem is Fedora Core 15 kernel do not has HPSA device driver. I tried to load (my own build) HPSA driver ...
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How do I make use of unused space on my boot drive on FreeBSD
I have an old FreeBSD Server (running 7.3-RELEASE) that desperately needs additional storage. In fact, it has some-- the original 20G SCSI drives have been replaced by 300G SCSI drives, so in theory ...
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SCSI Tape drive on ubuntu and centos
On ubuntu 12.10 I have those SCSI drives:
[1:0:0:0] cd/dvd TSSTcorp CDDVDW TS-H653N 0208 /dev/sr0
[2:0:0:0] disk Generic USB SD Reader 1.00 /dev/sdb
[2:0:0:1] disk Generic ...
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Sequence of errors leads to init failure and subsequent kernel panic
We have one Redhat test server installed on Vmware ESXI. And when I boot the server it gave this error.
How to solve this issue because due to this error it doesn't boot.
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How to install much newer mpt2sas driver version in debian squeeze?
Linux debian squeeze 6.0.6 (2.6.32-5-amd64) is supplied with quite an old 02.100.03.00 version of the mpt2sas driver.
I do wish to install a much newer mpt2sas driver version. In know there are ...
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How to fix mpt2sas “port enable: FAILED with timeout (timeout=300s)”?
Since having set the drives attached to an LSI SAS 2008 controller to "Power up in standby", these drives are no longer being detected. Power up in standby is also known as PUIS, POIS or "ATA6 power ...
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How to skip/exclude one SCSI bus from scanning during boot?
A "Linux debian 3.2.0-0.bpo.3-amd64 #1 SMP Thu Aug 23 07:41:30 UTC 2012 x86_64 GNU/Linux" system has at least 5 SCSI hosts:
root@debian:~# ls /sys/class/scsi_host
host0 host1 host2 host3 host4
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Locate disk in SAS enclosure
I want to blink the failing device in my 24-disk SAS enclosure.
I have found sg_ses --index 7 --set=locate /dev/sg24 which is supposed to identify slot 7.
But how do I figure out which slot/index ...
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mptscsih: ioc0: task abort: SUCCESS (rv=2002) causes 30 seconds freezing
I/O to my software RAID6 often freezes for around 30 seconds after which everything is back to normal.
After the freeze is over this is put into syslog:
Mar 14 18:43:57 server kernel: [35649.816060] ...
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“echo 1 > /sys/block/sdX/device/delete” on all disks except predetermined list
I have a list of scsi disks that I need to remove. The list is considered random at best and changes from time to time. I want to remove everything except a predefined list that I have created. Let's ...
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Centos/RHEL 5.5/5.6 supported SCSI adapters
We have a batch of SuperMicro 6014H-82 servers that have Adaptec 2015S SCSI controllers fitted. Unfortunately, according to the bug tracker (0002087: CentOS installer won't detect harddrives) it looks ...
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Devices get renamed when SATA disk attached
I have an HP xw8200 workstation running linux with two small, fast SCSI drives hooked up to the onboard LSI SCSI controller. The drives get labeled /dev/sda & /dev/sdb in /dev, respectively. I ...
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Are any SCSI modules needed in initrd if only SATA and IDE disks are used?
I am creating a cloning script to automate a minimalistic installation of Cent OS 5.5 on about 100 workstations of various hardware and age (2-10 years). The workstations are all either IDE or SATA. ...
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Prevent a USB external hard drive from sleeping
Does anyone know if there is an elegant way to tell an external usb drive not to spin down after a period of inactivity? I've seen cron based solutions that write a file every minute, but nothing ...
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Why do my SATA devices show up under /proc/scsi/scsi?
I have 3 SATA devices on my system. They show up under /proc/scsi/scsi, although these are not SCSI devices. Why do my SATA devices show up under the SCSI directory?
$ cat /proc/scsi/scsi
Attached ...
